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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be 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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

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

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Amazon

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

Transwarp

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2007

2012

2018

2010

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

OpenCypher

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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)

simple authentication-based access control

Role-based access control

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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