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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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 ScioreA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbhugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAmazonBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Alessandro Furieri
Initial release2007201820102008
Current release0.95.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Unix
hostedserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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