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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. gStore vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed 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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

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

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

en.gstore.cn

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

wakanda.github.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon

STS Soft SC

Wakanda SAS

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2007

2016

2011

2012

2009

Current release

1.2, November 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
Java

JavaScript

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

horizontal partitioning

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

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

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, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

A Place for Everything – Amazon SimpleDB
14 December 2007, AWS Blog

Hands-on Tutorial for Getting Started with Amazon SimpleDB
28 May 2010, Packt Hub

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12 November 2013, TechCrunch

Amazon SimpleDB Management in Eclipse
22 July 2009, AWS Blog

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