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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Citus vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Citus vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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 hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.citusdata.comgeospock.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsiridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.citusdata.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.siridb.com
DeveloperAmazonGeoSpockSAP infoformerly SybaseCesbit
Initial release2007201019922017
Current release8.1, December 20182.0, September 201917, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJava, JavascriptC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoACIDno
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts

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