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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Firebird vs. HugeGraph vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Firebird vs. HugeGraph vs. PostGIS

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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 ScioreFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
postgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshugegraph.apache.org/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonFirebird FoundationBaidu
Initial release20072000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20182005
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.93.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers, roles and permissionsyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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