DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hazelcast vs. SAP HANA vs. Titan vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hazelcast vs. SAP HANA vs. Titan vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

hazelcast.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

help.sap.com/hana

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon

Hazelcast

SAP

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2007

2008

2010

2012

2011

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

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)

Role-based access control

yes

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Based on Windows Authentication

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