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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. RavenDB vs. Realm vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. RavenDB vs. Realm vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 ScioreOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA 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 modelKey-value storeDocument storeDocument storeWide column storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbravendb.netrealm.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbravendb.net/­docsrealm.io/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAmazonHibernating RhinosRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Alex KashirinByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20072010201420202016
Current release5.4, July 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC#C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (RQL)noSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynono
Triggersnoyesyes infoChange Listenersnono
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 replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yes infoIn-Memory realmnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Authorization levels configured per client per databaseyesno

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