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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Realm vs. VoltDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed 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 multi-model DBMS and application serverA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrealm.iowww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.intersystems.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAmazonInterSystemsOracleRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019VoltDB Inc.
Initial release20071997201120142010
Current release2018.1.4, May 202024.1, May 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryJava
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cacheyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and rolesyesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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