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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Kingbase

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationAtos Convergence CreatorsBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release2007201220161999
Current release1.20.3, January 20231703V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
LDAPADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++All languages with LDAP bindings.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infocell divisionhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Depending on the underlying data sourceLDAP bind authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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