DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. MySQL 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

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#130	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

phoenix.apache.org

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

phoenix.apache.org

dev.mysql.com/doc

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

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

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2007

2014

1995

2007

2006

Current release

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

8.3.0, January 2024

14.1, August 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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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