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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Faircom DB

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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

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.53
Rank	#111	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#237	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

learn.faircomcorp.com/developers/documentation_directory

Developer

Amazon

FairCom Corporation

Initial release

2007

1979

Current release

V12, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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)

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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Specific characteristics

Achieve Hundreds of Thousands of Transactions Per Second on A Single Database Server...
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Competitive advantages

Top Features SQL Key-value store and navigational NoSQL API Indexed binary objects...
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Typical application scenarios

Real-time transaction processing solutions leverage FairCom DB because its NoSQL...
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Key customers

Microsoft, UPS, Verizon, Motorola, Commvault, Thomson Reuters, ACI, BNY Mellon, Rockwell...
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Market metrics

From banking and financial transactions, transportation, warehouse automation, package...
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Licensing and pricing models

Just as the technical aspects of FairCom DB are flexible to meet operation requirements,...
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