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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. AntDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

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

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Amazon

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

SAP, formerly Sybase

Transwarp

Initial release

2007

1994

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

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

yes

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