DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Oracle vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Oracle vs. Rockset

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Name

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

Widely used RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.oracle.com/database

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Oracle

Rockset

Initial release

2007

2016

1980

2019

Current release

1703

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

cell division

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

LDAP bind authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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