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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Cachelot.io vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Cachelot.io vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RDF4J

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 HBaseIn-memory caching systemDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgcachelot.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20072014201520102004
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonoyes
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 automaticallyyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCMemcached protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual 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 applicationACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
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-tenancynoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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