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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB

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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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

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

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

terminusdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

STS Soft SC

DataChemist Ltd.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2007

2011

2018

2019

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java

JavaScript
Python

Clojure
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

none

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Journaling Streams

yes, each node contains all data

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

User concepts

Access control

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

Role-based access control

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Recent citations in the news

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