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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Graph Engine vs. HugeGraph vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Graph Engine vs. HugeGraph vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  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 HBaseA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.15
Rank#339  Overall
#33  Graph DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#379  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationMicrosoftBaiduSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20072014201020182006
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20190.98.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava.NET and CJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
.NETLinux
macOS
Unix
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 automaticallyyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardinghorizontal partitioningyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationvia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
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-tenancyUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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