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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB vs. YottaDB

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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 fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Amazon

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2007

2012

2018

2001

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

optimistic locking

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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