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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Riak TS vs. Spark SQL vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Riak TS vs. Spark SQL vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 ScioreRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbspark.apache.org/­sqltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAmazonOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release2007201520142009
Current release3.0.0, September 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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 automaticallyrestrictednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, limitedSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Java
Python
R
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangnono
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storednoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonono

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