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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. EJDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. openGemini

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  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 HadoopEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.opengemini.org/­guide
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSoftmotionsFairCom CorporationHuawei and openGemini community
Initial release20072013201219792022
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V3, October 20201.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CANSI C, C++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-lessAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes, ANSI Standard SQL TypesInteger, Float, Boolean, String
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
in-process shared libraryADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes infowhen using SQLno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
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 KerberosnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Administrators and common users accounts

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