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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Ingres vs. Kinetica vs. Netezza

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Ingres vs. Kinetica vs. Netezza

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  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 ScioreEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionWell established RDBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.esgyn.cnwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.kinetica.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezza
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAmazonEsgynActian CorporationKineticaIBM
Initial release200720151974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20122000
Current release11.2, May 20227.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaCC, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.nonoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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