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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. Yanza

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreServerless Time Series DBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbhyprcubd.com (offline)github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSyanza.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAmazonHyprcubd, Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesYanza
Initial release2007201420092015
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnonono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyes infovia viewsrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC (https)JavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptErlangno
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)token accessnoyes, using Riak Securityno

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