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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#112	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon

STS Soft SC

Rocket Software

Initial release

2007

2011

2023

1985

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

Vector, Numeric and String

optional

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

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java

C++
Java
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

ACID

configurable

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)

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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