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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Faircom EDGE vs. RDFox

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  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 HadoopFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#370  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaFairCom CorporationOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2007201319792017
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V3, October 20206.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoANSI SQL queriesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infowhen using SQL
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 infoacross SQL and NoSQL
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.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 KerberosFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Roles, resources, and access types

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