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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Riak TS

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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 in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

Primary database model

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

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

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

atoti.io

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.atoti.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

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

Developer

Amazon

ActiveViam

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2007

1984

2015

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Erlang

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

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