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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. ReductStore vs. Transbase

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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

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.reduct.store/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon

ReductStore LLC

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2007

2023

1987

Current release

1.9, March 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

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14 December 2007, AWS Blog

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