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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Coveo vs. Cubrid vs. FoundationDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the 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 ScioreAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.coveo.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
github.com/­apple/­foundationdbterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.coveo.comcubrid.org/­manualsapple.github.io/­foundationdbterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAmazonCoveoCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationFoundationDBDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20072012200820132018
Current release11.0, January 20216.2.28, November 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno infosome layers support typingyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyessupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationyesnoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replicationyesJournaling Streams
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 ConsistencyLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)granular access controls, API key management, content filtersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control

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