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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. FoundationDB vs. HyperSQL vs. SiteWhere

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#188  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.90
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#367  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorygithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhsqldb.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbapple.github.io/­foundationdbhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonAtos Convergence CreatorsFoundationDBSiteWhere
Initial release20072016201320012010
Current release17036.2.28, November 20202.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-free infosome layers support schemasyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APILDAPHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages with LDAP bindings.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoin SQL-layer onlyJava, SQL
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infocell divisionShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoin SQL-layer onlyyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)LDAP bind authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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