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

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine vs. Snowflake

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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

Score	2.02
Rank	#130	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

phoenix.apache.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sadasengine.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

phoenix.apache.org

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

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2007

2014

2007

2006

2014

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

commercial

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

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

yes

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

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

configurable

ACID

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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