DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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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	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

bangdb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.bangdb.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Amazon

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Microsoft

SAP, Sybase

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2007

2012

2014

1987

1992

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

16.0

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

JSON types

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session 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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

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)

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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