DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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)

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

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

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

rocksdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Amazon

Facebook, Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Yanza

Initial release

2007

2013

1998

2015

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

Windows

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
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

horizontal partitioning

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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