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

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  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 HadoopSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeMultivalue DBMS
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
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orggeospock.comboilerbay.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaGeoSpockBoiler Bay Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release2007201320021991
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.0, September 20194.05.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysoptional
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyestemporal, categoricalno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBCAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJava.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornoneyes
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
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 loadsACID
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.nononoyes
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 tablenoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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