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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. JaguarDB vs. SiriDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. XTDB

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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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.jaguardb.com

siridb.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.siridb.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

DataJaguar, Inc.

Cesbit

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2015

2017

2009

2019

Current release

3.3 July 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

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

Groovy
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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)

rights management via user accounts

simple rights management via user accounts

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