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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. HugeGraph vs. RisingWave vs. RocksDB

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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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.risingwave.com/database

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Baidu

RisingWave Labs

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2018

2022

2013

Current release

0.9

1.2, September 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Unix

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

yes

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)

Users, roles and permissions

Users and Roles

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