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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. AntDB vs. Ehcache vs. Sphinx

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.ehcache.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.ehcache.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAmazonAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release200720092001
Current release3.10.0, March 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL2016 compliantnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
JCacheProprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnoyesyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoby using Terracotta Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono
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Amazon SimpleDBAntDBEhcacheSphinx
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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