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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. HarperDB vs. PlanetScale vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. HarperDB vs. PlanetScale vs. SiriDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  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 ScioreUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.harperdb.ioplanetscale.comsiridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.harperdb.io/­docsplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperAmazonHarperDBPlanetScaleCesbit
Initial release2007201720202017
Current release3.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageNode.jsGoC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoJSON data typesyesyes infoNumeric data
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationAtomic execution of specific operationsACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolessimple rights management via user accounts

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