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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Firebolt vs. GeoSpock vs. InfinityDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 HadoopHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series 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
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orgwww.firebolt.iogeospock.comboilerbay.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.firebolt.ioboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaFirebolt Analytics Inc.GeoSpockBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release2007201320202002
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.0, September 20194.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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 automaticallyyesyestemporal, categoricalno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factordepending on storage layernone
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonono
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 rights for users can be defined per tableno

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