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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. EXASOL vs. FoundationDB vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. EXASOL vs. FoundationDB vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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 ScioreHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Wide column storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.exasol.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.exasol.com/­resourcesapple.github.io/­foundationdbcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAmazonExasolFoundationDBHypertable Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20072000201320092010
Current release6.2.28, November 20200.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++C++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno infosome layers support typingnono
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 automaticallyyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyessupported in specific SQL layer onlynono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsin SQL-layer onlynoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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