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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. VelocityDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 networksWidely used in-process key-value storeA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationAtos Convergence CreatorsOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20072012201619942011
Current release1.20.3, January 2023170318.1.40, May 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalnoyes
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 infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
LDAP.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++All languages with LDAP bindings.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnonoyesyes infoonly for the SQL APICallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infocell divisionnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
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 integritynonononono
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 operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
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 authenticationnoBased on Windows Authentication

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