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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgeospock.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperAmazonDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGeoSpockHyprcubd, Inc.Actian Corporation
Initial release200720081974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.0, September 201911.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptGoC
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyestemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCJDBCgRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres Replicator
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 ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes infoMVCC
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per tabletoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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