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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. InfinityDB vs. SiriDB vs. TerminusDB

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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 Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.74
Rank	#134	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#326	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

boilerbay.com

siridb.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.siridb.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

Boiler Bay Inc.

Cesbit

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2002

2017

2018

Current release

4.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

Numeric data

yes

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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)

simple rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

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Recent citations in the news

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31 July 2024, DevClass

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22 July 2009, AWS Blog

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1 September 2023, All Things Distributed

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2 June 2020, TechTarget

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12 January 2009, AWS Blog

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