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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blueflood vs. LokiJS vs. SAP IQ vs. SpaceTime

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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 CassandraIn-memory JavaScript DBMSColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbblueflood.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikitechfort.github.io/­LokiJShelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceSAP, formerly SybaseMireo
Initial release20072013201419942020
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infobased on Cassandranoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSAP/Sybase Replication ServerReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesHadoop integrationno
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
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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