DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Bangdb vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Bangdb vs. TimesTen

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Name	Amazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparison	Atos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison	Bangdb  Xexclude from comparison	TimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
		This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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	Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks	Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph	In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database model	Key-value store	Document store Key-value store	Document store Graph DBMS Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.88 Rank #133   Overall #23   Key-value stores		Score 0.16 Rank #338   Overall #47   Document stores #32   Graph DBMS #31   Time Series DBMS	Score 1.36 Rank #161   Overall #75   Relational DBMS
Website	aws.amazon.com/­simpledb	atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository	bangdb.com	www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentation	docs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledb		docs.bangdb.com	docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer	Amazon	Atos Convergence Creators	Sachin Sinha, BangDB	Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release	2007	2016	2012	1998
Current release		1703	BangDB 2.0, October 2021	11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source BSD 3	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	C, C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	Linux	AIX HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris SPARC/x86 Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	Schema and schema-less with LDAP views	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	optional	yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events	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	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes All columns are indexed automatically	yes	yes secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	SQL like support with command line tool	yes
APIs and other access methods	RESTful HTTP API	LDAP	Proprietary protocol RESTful HTTP API	JDBC ODBC ODP.NET Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ Erlang Java PHP Python Ruby Scala	All languages with LDAP bindings	C C# C++ Java Python	C C++ Java PL/SQL
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	no	PL/SQL
Triggers	no	yes	yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none Sharding must be implemented in the application	Sharding cell division	Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	yes	selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no		no	no
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 depending on configuration	Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application	Atomic execution of specific operations	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes, optimistic concurrency control	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well	yes by means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		yes	yes, run db with in-memory only mode	yes
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)	LDAP bind authentication	yes (enterprise version only)	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DB-Engines blog posts	The popularity of cloud-based DBMSs has increased tenfold in four years 7 February 2017, Matthias Gelbmann Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market 3 August 2015, Matthias Gelbmann show all
Recent citations in the news	A Place for Everything – Amazon SimpleDB 14 December 2007, AWS Blog Amazon DynamoDB Serves Trillions Of Requests Per Month While Counterpart SimpleDB Is No Longer A Listed ... 12 November 2013, TechCrunch Hands-on Tutorial for Getting Started with Amazon SimpleDB 28 May 2010, Packt Hub Amazon SimpleDB Expands Web Services 16 December 2007, Data Center Knowledge An Overview of Amazon Web Services - Cloud Application Architectures [Book] 22 September 2018, O'Reilly Media provided by Google News

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