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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 CassandraMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbblueflood.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.heavy.aidocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHEAVY.AI, Inc.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20072013200820161994
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.10, January 202218.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++ and CUDAC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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)noPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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