DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. RocksDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. RocksDB vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TerarkDB

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

rocksdb.org

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

Facebook, Inc.

Tencent

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2007

2013

2016

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

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

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

yes

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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