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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak TS vs. TimesTen vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.objectbox.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Amazon

ObjectBox Limited

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2007

2017

2015

1998

2014

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

3.0.0, September 2022

Release 22.1

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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 and C++

Erlang

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
OS X

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

PL/SQL

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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