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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Realm vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb

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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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

realm.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

realm.io/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SiteWhere

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2014

2010

2011

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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