DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. Yaacomo

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

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

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

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

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

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

Transwarp

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2007

2012

2018

2009

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

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

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

OpenCypher

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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)

simple authentication-based access control

Role-based access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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