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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blueflood vs. MaxDB vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

blueflood.io

maxdb.sap.com

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Rackspace

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2007

2013

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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