DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Hypertable vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Hypertable vs. Warp 10

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.03
Rank	#190	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

FoundationDB

Hypertable Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2012

2007

2013

2009

2015

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

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

restricted

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

in SQL-layer only

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.