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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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Well established RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

hsqldb.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

Amazon

Softmotions

Actian Corporation

Initial release

2007

2012

2001

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Ingres Replicator

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

MVCC

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.

yes

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

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