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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Heroic vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Heroic vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  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 ElasticSearchDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSearch engine
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#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperAmazonSpotifyTranswarp
Initial release20072014
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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)

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