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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Lovefield vs. PostGIS vs. RDF4J vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Lovefield vs. PostGIS vs. RDF4J vs. TigerGraph

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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 ScioreEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSpatial extension of PostgreSQLRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldpostgis.netrdf4j.orgwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdpostgis.net/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAmazonGoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20072014200520042017
Current release2.1.12, February 20173.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyesyes
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoRole-based access control

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