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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. LokiJS vs. SQream DB

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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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

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

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

atoti.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.atoti.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Amazon

ActiveViam

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2007

2014

2017

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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)

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