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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. LokiJS vs. Netezza vs. Sequoiadb vs. TypeDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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 ScioreIn-memory JavaScript DBMSData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.sequoiadb.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indextypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonIBMSequoiadb Ltd.Vaticle
Initial release20072014200020132016
Current release2.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infoincluded in applianceLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
proprietary protocol using JSONgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyesJavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple password-based access controlyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon SimpleDBLokiJSNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMSequoiadbTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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