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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. GridGain vs. LokiJS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. GridGain vs. LokiJS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 ScioreOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteIn-memory JavaScript DBMSLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsGridGain Systems, Inc.Sybase, SAP
Initial release20072012200720141993
Current release29.0.1, April 2024GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptDelphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes (replicated cache)noneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate 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 applicationnoACIDno 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.noyesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
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 systemSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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