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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Interbase vs. Memcached vs. OrientDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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 ScioreLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.memcached.orgorientdb.orgwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAmazonEmbarcaderoDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPWakanda SAS
Initial release20071984200320102012
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20191.6.27, May 20243.2.29, March 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCCJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.no infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoJava, Javascriptyes
TriggersnoyesnoHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change Viewsnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyes

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