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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Heroic vs. Linter vs. TerminusDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Heroic vs. Linter vs. TerminusDB vs. YTsaurus

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  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 ScioreTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchRDBMS for high security requirementsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­spotify/­heroiclinter.ruterminusdb.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbspotify.github.io/­heroicterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#ytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperAmazonSpotifyrelex.ruDataChemist Ltd.Yandex
Initial release20072014199020182023
Current release11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Prolog, RustC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
LinuxUbuntu
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replicationJournaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess Control Lists

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