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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. HBase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. HBase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  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 CassandraGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column storeRelational 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
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbblueflood.iowww.geomesa.orghbase.apache.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceCCRi and othersApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20072013201420081992
Current release5.0.0, May 20242.3.4, January 202117, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
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
depending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nodepending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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