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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. MaxDB vs. STSdb vs. YottaDB

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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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

maxdb.sap.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Amazon

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

STS Soft SC

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2007

1984

2011

2001

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

.NET Client API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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