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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  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 ScioreAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlphoenix.apache.orglearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaApache Software FoundationMicrosoft
Initial release2007201320142015
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBCRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyes infousing Azure authentication

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