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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. HEAVY.AI vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

atoti.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.atoti.io

docs.heavy.ai

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Amazon

ActiveViam

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2007

2016

1998

Current release

5.10, January 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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