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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. IBM Db2 vs. Ignite vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. IBM Db2 vs. Ignite vs. jBASE

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  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 ScioreFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2ignite.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2apacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAmazonFairCom CorporationIBMApache Software FoundationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release200719791983 infohost version20151991
Current releaseV3, October 202012.1, October 2016Apache Ignite 2.65.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C and C++C++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesoptional
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.yesyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes
Triggersnoyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes (replicated cache)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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