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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Splice Machine vs. XTDB vs. YTsaurus

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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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

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

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

splicemachine.com

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

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.xtdb.com/docs

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Amazon

Splice Machine

Juxt Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

2007

2014

2019

2023

Current release

3.1, March 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Clojure
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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