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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Ehcache vs. GBase vs. jBASE

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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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.ehcache.org

www.gbase.cn

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Amazon

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2007

2009

2004

1991

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

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

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

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

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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)

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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