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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Bangdb vs. SAP HANA

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  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 HadoopConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial 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
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orgbangdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.bangdb.comhelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSachin Sinha, BangDBSAP
Initial release2007201320122010
Current release4.1.0, June 2022BangDB 2.0, October 20212.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono infoalso available as a cloud based service
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Implementation languageC++C, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxAppliance or cloud-service
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes
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 automaticallyyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL like support with command line toolyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoSQLScript, R
Triggersnonoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeyes
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 Kerberosyes (enterprise version only)yes

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