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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. OpenEdge vs. searchxml

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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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.eventstore.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

developers.eventstore.com

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Amazon

Event Store Limited

Progress Software Corporation

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2007

2012

1984

2015

Current release

21.2, February 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users and groups

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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Recent citations in the news

A Place for Everything – Amazon SimpleDB | AWS News Blog
14 December 2007, AWS Blog

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22 September 2018, oreilly.com

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22 July 2009, AWS Blog

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