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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hive vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hive vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 Scioredata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbhive.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homekairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookGoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20072012201320142004
Current release3.1.3, April 20221.2.2, November 20182.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyes
TriggersnononoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlnono

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