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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Ehcache vs. Hive vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Ehcache vs. Hive vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 ScioreA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.ehcache.orghive.apache.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.ehcache.org/­documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookGoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20072009201220142004
Current release3.10.0, March 20223.1.3, April 20222.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 automaticallynoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJCacheJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event ListenersnoUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnono

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