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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. FatDB vs. JaguarDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. STSdb

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.jaguardb.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Amazon

FatCloud

DataJaguar, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2012

2015

1993

2011

Current release

3.3 July 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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