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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. MySQL vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp Hippo

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.mysql.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Amazon

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

1995

2011

2023

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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