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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. STSdb vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. WakandaDB

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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

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon

STS Soft SC

Rocket Software

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2007

2011

1985

2012

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

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++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

optional

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

.NET Client API

Java API

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

ACID

configurable

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

yes

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