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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. chDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TerarkDB

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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

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	3.07
Rank	#86	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#11	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

doc.chdb.io

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

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

Oracle

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2007

2023

2011

2016

Current release

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

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