DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

phoenix.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

phoenix.apache.org

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2007

2014

2007

2006

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

14.1, August 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access 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-tenancy

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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