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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. Ehcache vs. Heroic

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  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 ScioreA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAn embedded key-value store for Go.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgwww.ehcache.org/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSpotify
Initial release20072014201320092014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCJCacheHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
GoJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnononoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDyesyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
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-tenancynono

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