DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. STSdb

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Name	Amazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparison	Atos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	STSdb  Xexclude from comparison
		This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.	SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Key-Value Store with special method for indexing optimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database model	Key-value store	Document store Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.88 Rank #133   Overall #23   Key-value stores			Score 0.10 Rank #357   Overall #51   Key-value stores
Website	aws.amazon.com/­simpledb	atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentation	docs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledb
Developer	Amazon	Atos Convergence Creators	Sybase, SAP	STS Soft SC
Initial release	2007	2016	1993	2011
Current release		1703		4.0.8, September 2015
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	Open Source GPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java		C#
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	Linux Windows	Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	Schema and schema-less with LDAP views	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	optional	yes	yes primitive types and user defined types (classes)
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
Secondary indexes	yes All columns are indexed automatically	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	RESTful HTTP API	LDAP	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	.NET Client API
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ Erlang Java PHP Python Ruby Scala	All languages with LDAP bindings	Delphi Perl PHP	C# Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	yes	no
Triggers	no	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none Sharding must be implemented in the application	Sharding cell division	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	none
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	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes	no
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	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
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	no
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	Amazon SimpleDB	Atos Standard Common Repository	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	STSdb
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 An Overview of Amazon Web Services - Cloud Application Architectures [Book] 22 September 2018, O'Reilly Media Amazon SimpleDB Management in Eclipse 22 July 2009, AWS Blog provided by Google News	Infographic: What makes a Mobile Operator's setup future proof? 10 February 2024, Atos provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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