DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded 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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

geospock.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

GeoSpock

SAP

formerly Sybase

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2007

1992

2017

Current release

2.0, September 2019

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

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)

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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