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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Linter vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Linter vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareRDBMS for high security requirementsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
linter.ruwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.heavy.aiwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAmazonHEAVY.AI, Inc.relex.ruOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesMireo
Initial release20072016199020092020
Current release5.10, January 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC and C++ErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLErlangno
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Fixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Securityyes

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