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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. OrientDB vs. STSdb vs. Vitess vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. OrientDB vs. STSdb vs. Vitess vs. WakandaDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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)Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledborientdb.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4vitess.iowakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlvitess.io/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAmazonOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSTS Soft SCThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleWakanda SAS
Initial release20072010201120132012
Current release3.2.29, March 20244.0.8, September 201515.0.2, December 20222.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#GoC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)WindowsDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
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
C#
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, Javascriptnoyes infoproprietary syntaxyes
TriggersnoHooksnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
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
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.yesno
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 configurablenoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes

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