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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 HadoopA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value 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
Score0.40
Rank#269  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orgkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisesphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaKyligence, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20072013201620012011
Current release4.1.0, June 20223.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
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 Kerberosnono

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