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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. DataFS vs. HyperSQL vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. DataFS vs. HyperSQL vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 ScioreAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#354  Overall
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbnewdatabase.comhsqldb.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xsphsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazonMobiland AGSQream Technologies
Initial release2007201820012017
Current release1.1.263, October 20222.7.2, June 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedWindowsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Data schemeschema-freeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnono, except callback-events from server when changes happenedyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationProprietary Sharding systemnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Windows-Profilefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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