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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. JanusGraph vs. SQL.JS

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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 Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.janusgraph.org

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2007

2017

2012

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

yes

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.

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

yes

no

Triggers

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

no

except by serializing a db to a file

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)

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

no

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