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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. dBASE vs. Ehcache vs. Hawkular Metrics

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  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 ScioredBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.dbase.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.hawkular.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperAmazonAsthon TateTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release2007197920092014
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 automaticallyyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JCacheHTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
dBase proprietary IDEJavaGo
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nono
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
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
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes
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 and rolesnono

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