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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. KairosDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Transwarp Hippo

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

kairosdb.github.io

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Amazon

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2007

2013

2017

2023

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

4.0 (May 2024)

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

Vector, Numeric and String

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C++
Java
Python

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

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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 password-based access control

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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18 June 2024

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