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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sequoiadb vs. TigerGraph vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sequoiadb vs. TigerGraph vs. Yaacomo

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
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 Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.sequoiadb.comwww.tigergraph.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAmazonMicrosoftSequoiadb Ltd.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20072012201320172009
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationoptimistic lockingDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturessimple password-based access controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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