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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Riak KV vs. ScyllaDB 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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.scylladb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Amazon

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

ScyllaDB

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2009

2015

2011

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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 tables

User concepts

Access control

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

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Key customers

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