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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Hypertable

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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 ScioreA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.14
Rank#171  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbkylin.apache.orgphoenix.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbkylin.apache.org/­docsphoenix.apache.org
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncApache Software FoundationHypertable Inc.
Initial release2007201520142009
Current release3.1.0, July 20205.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20190.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 automaticallyyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCC++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDno
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyno

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