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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Realm vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Realm vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 ScioreAnalytic DBMS for HadoopFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#145  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score15.06
Rank#39  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#373  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score7.70
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#344  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgerealm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaFairCom CorporationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SC
Initial release20072013197920142011
Current release4.1.0, June 2022V3, October 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ANSI C, C++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoANSI SQL queriesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnonoyesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infowhen using SQLnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
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.noyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.yesno

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