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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blueflood vs. Brytlyt vs. LokiJS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blueflood vs. Brytlyt vs. LokiJS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  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 ScioreScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLIn-memory JavaScript DBMSRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#279  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbblueflood.iobrytlyt.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.brytlyt.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJShelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceBrytlytSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20072013201620141992
Current release5.0, August 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++ and CUDAJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JavaScript APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLView functions in JavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infobased on Cassandranonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
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 ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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