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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Cubrid vs. IBM Cloudant

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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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.63
Rank	#134	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.95
Rank	#186	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	2.50
Rank	#99	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cubrid.org/manuals

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Amazon

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2007

2008

2010

Current release

11.0, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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