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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Cubrid vs. Derby vs. FileMaker vs. MarkLogic

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  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 ScioreCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
db.apache.org/­derbywww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.progress.com/­marklogic
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbcubrid.org/­manualsdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationApache Software FoundationClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMarkLogic Corp.
Initial release20072008199719832001
Current release11.0, January 202110.17.1.0, November 202319.4.1, November 202111.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infovia pluginsyes infoSQL92
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaPHPC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored ProceduresJava Stored Proceduresyesyes infovia XQuery or JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs
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 integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDnoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction
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.noyesyes, with Range Indexes
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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