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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenEdge

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  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 ScioreSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Application development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.orgblueflood.iocloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationRackspaceGoogleProgress Software Corporation
Initial release20072012201320151984
Current release1.20.3, January 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonoyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoAtomic single-row operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 sourcenonono
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 sourcenoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users and groups

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