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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. MaxDB vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. Tarantool

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  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 ScioreA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score2.65
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score1.67
Rank#150  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#69  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbmaxdb.sap.comrealm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.tarantool.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationrealm.io/­docswww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperAmazonSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SCVK
Initial release20071984201420112008
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20244.0.8, September 20152.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C#C and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
WindowsBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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 automaticallyyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
.NET Client APIOpen binary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnoyesyes infoChange Listenersnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenonenoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnonenoneAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDnoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realmyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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