DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Redis vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Redis vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. info

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker info

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing info

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store info

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store info

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS info

with Redis Modules
Search engine info

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS info

with Redis Modules

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Score	2.36
Rank	#98	Overall
	#18	Key-value stores

Score	142.91
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#284	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

redis.io

stssoft.com/products/stsdb-4-0

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

redis.io/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Salvatore Sanfilippo info

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2009

2011

Current release

5.0.5, May 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

Open Source info

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows info

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support info

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

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol info

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C#
Java

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Master-slave replication info

Chained replication is supported
Multi-master replication info

with Redis Enterprise Pack

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be specified for read operations

Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

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

Simple password-based access control info

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

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