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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Cubrid vs. Interbase vs. jBASE vs. Realm

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  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 OLTPLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaserealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbcubrid.org/­manualsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9realm.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationEmbarcaderoRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20072008198419912014
Current release11.0, January 2021InterBase 2020, December 20195.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptionalyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based 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
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationInterbase Change Viewsyesnone
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 integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
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.noyesyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
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-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes

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