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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. LevelDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. YTsaurus

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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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/google/leveldb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Amazon

Google

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Yandex

Initial release

2007

2011

1984

2023

Current release

1.23, February 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access Control Lists

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