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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Valentina Server vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Object-relational database and reports server

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

terminusdb.com

www.valentina-db.net

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon

DataChemist Ltd.

Paradigma Software

Yanza

Initial release

2007

2018

1999

2015

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

none

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)

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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