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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Faircom EDGE

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments
Primary database modelKey-value storeNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#380  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbasex.orgblueflood.iowww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edge
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html
DeveloperAmazonBaseX GmbHRackspaceFairCom Corporation
Initial release2007200720131979
Current release10.7, August 2023V3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoRestricted, free version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaANSI C, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infoXQuery supports typesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoANSI SQL queries
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP RESTADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneSharding infobased on CassandraFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs
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
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infowhen using SQL
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationmultiple readers, single writernoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQL
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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