DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. GigaSpaces vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. GigaSpaces vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

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

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

drill.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Gigaspaces Technologies

SAP

Initial release

2012

2007

2012

2000

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

15.5, September 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C++

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Depending on the underlying data source

Role-based access control

yes

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