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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. BaseX vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. BaseX vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  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 HadoopLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orgbasex.orggeode.apache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtable
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.basex.orggeode.apache.org/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaBaseX GmbHOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Google
Initial release20072013200720022015
Current release4.1.0, June 202210.7, August 20231.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesno
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 automaticallyyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes infovia eventsyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
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 applicationnomultiple readers, single writeryes, on a single nodeAtomic single-row operations
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.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 KerberosUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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