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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Cubrid vs. Sphinx vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Cubrid vs. Sphinx vs. YDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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 HBaseCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
sphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgcubrid.org/­manualssphinxsearch.com/­docsydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.Yandex
Initial release20072014200820012019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201911.0, January 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++, JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 automaticallyyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneActive-passive shard replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDnoACID
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.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-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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