DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. Snowflake

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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

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.progress.com/openedge

realm.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

realm.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

Progress Software Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2007

2018

1984

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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