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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. CrateDB vs. MySQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Widely used open source RDBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#227	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#15	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cratedb.com

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cratedb.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Amazon

Crate

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2007

2013

1995

1993

2023

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantages

Response time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Across all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metrics

The CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing models

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