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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. mSQL vs. Riak TS

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.55
Rank	#129	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#171	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#328	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

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

Developer

Amazon

Hughes Technologies

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2007

1994

2015

Current release

4.4, October 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets 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

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)

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