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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Memcached vs. Netezza

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Memcached vs. Netezza

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  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 ScioreReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.featurebase.comwww.memcached.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezza
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.featurebase.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalIBM
Initial release2007201720032000
Current release2022, May 20221.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL queriesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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