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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb 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 ScioreA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Object oriented DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.jaguardb.comobjectbox.iordf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.objectbox.iordf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonCirconus LLC.DataJaguar, Inc.ObjectBox LimitedSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20072017201520172004
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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 automaticallynoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIJava 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
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luanonoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
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 persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)norights management via user accountsyesno
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