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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Apache Phoenix vs. STSdb vs. VelocityDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 HBaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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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
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4velocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlphoenix.apache.orgvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20072013201420112011
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20194.0.8, September 20157.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC#C#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
WindowsAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 automaticallyyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC.NET Client API.Net
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
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsnono
TriggersnonononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceHadoop integrationnono
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 integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
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-tenancynoBased on Windows Authentication

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