DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

google.github.io/lovefield

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

Embarcadero

Google

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2007

1984

2014

2012

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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