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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. OrientDB vs. Prometheus vs. SpaceTime vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. OrientDB vs. Prometheus vs. SpaceTime vs. Stardog

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledborientdb.orgprometheus.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.stardog.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAmazonOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPMireoStardog-Union
Initial release20072010201520202010
Current release3.2.29, March 20247.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nono infoImport of XML data possiblenono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnonoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, Javascriptnonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
TriggersnoHooksnonoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationyes infoby FederationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsnonoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnonoACID
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenoyesAccess rights for users and roles

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