DB-EnginesextremeDB - Data management wherever you need itEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RocksDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RocksDB vs. VoltDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 widely adopted in-memory data gridDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score5.72
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score1.38
Rank#156  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbhazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantrocksdb.orgwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAmazonHazelcastIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Facebook, Inc.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release20072008201020132010
Current release5.3.6, November 20239.4.0, June 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaErlangC++Java, C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonoyes
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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIC++ API
Java API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoJava
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a document possibleyesACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Amazon SimpleDBHazelcastIBM CloudantRocksDBVoltDB
DB-Engines blog posts

The popularity of cloud-based DBMSs has increased tenfold in four years
7 February 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market
3 August 2015, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

AWS quietly freezes CodeCommit, Cloud9, SimpleDB and more, customers complain about lack of notice
31 July 2024, DevClass

A Place for Everything – Amazon SimpleDB
14 December 2007, AWS Blog

Amazon SimpleDB Management in Eclipse
22 July 2009, AWS Blog

Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell
1 September 2023, All Things Distributed

AWS, Microsoft and Google should retire these cloud services
2 June 2020, TechTarget

provided by Google News

Event Stream Processing Market Exploring Future Growth 2023-2032 and Key Players - Cloudera, Inc., Hazelcast,
24 September 2024, EIN News

Hazelcast 5.4 real time data processing platform boosts AI and consistency
17 April 2024, VentureBeat

Hazelcast Expands Global Partner Program to Support Mission-Critical, AI Application Projects
20 August 2024, PR Newswire

Hazelcast Weaves Wider Logic Threads Through The Data Fabric
7 March 2024, Forbes

Hazelcast Showcases Real-Time Data Platform at 2024 Gartner Summit
15 May 2024, Datanami

provided by Google News

Cloudant Best (and Worst) Practices — Part 1
18 March 2019, IBM

Intro to Enterprise Cloud Storage: How to Set Up a Cloudant Database
1 December 2014, Linux.com

IBM to Purchase Cloudant Database as a service (DBaaS) Provider
22 March 2014, App Developer Magazine

IBM Code Engine and IBM Cloudant: Serverless Data and Infrastructure
16 August 2021, IBM

DataStax acquires Aurelius, the startup behind the Titan graph database
3 February 2015, VentureBeat

provided by Google News

AMD EPYC vs. Intel Xeon Cascadelake With Facebook's RocksDB Database
17 October 2019, Phoronix

Meta’s Velox Means Database Performance Is Not Subject To Interpretation
31 August 2022, The Next Platform

Facebook’s MyRocks Truly Rocks!
21 September 2020, Open Source For You

Did Rockset Just Solve Real-Time Analytics?
25 August 2021, Datanami

Power your Kafka Streams application with Amazon MSK and AWS Fargate
10 August 2021, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

 VoltDB Launches Active(N) Lossless Cross Data Center Replication
31 August 2021, PR Newswire

Unveiling Volt Active Data’s game-changing approach to limitless app performance
16 October 2023, YourStory

VoltDB Aims for Fast Big Data Development
29 January 2015, ADT Magazine

VoltDB Announces Key New Hires
26 October 2021, citybiz

Solutions Review Sits Down with VoltDB CEO David Flower
17 April 2018, Solutions Review

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Present your product here