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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Snowflake vs. Valentina Server

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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 DBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.snowflake.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAmazonBaiduSnowflake Computing Inc.Paradigma Software
Initial release2007201820141999
Current release0.95.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
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 HBaseyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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