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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hazelcast vs. TerarkDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

hazelcast.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

Hazelcast

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2007

2008

2016

2023

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP 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

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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