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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Blueflood vs. LokiJS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Blueflood vs. LokiJS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  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 ScioreOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraIn-memory JavaScript DBMSRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#145  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.33
Rank#99  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#350  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#259  Overall
#41  Document stores
Score4.89
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgblueflood.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikitechfort.github.io/­LokiJShelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsRackspaceSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20072012201320141992
Current release29.0.0, February 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedpredefined 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 automaticallyyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTJavaScript APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on Cassandranonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate 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 applicationnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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