DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. KairosDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.firebirdsql.org

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Amazon

Firebird Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

2013

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.3 July 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

The popularity of cloud-based DBMSs has increased tenfold in four years
7 February 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market
3 August 2015, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Amazon SimpleDB Management in Eclipse | AWS News Blog
22 July 2009, AWS Blog

Hands-on Tutorial for Getting Started with Amazon SimpleDB
28 May 2010, Packt Hub

Amazon DynamoDB Serves Trillions Of Requests Per Month While Counterpart SimpleDB Is No Longer A Listed Product On AWS
12 November 2013, TechCrunch

Amazon Goes Back to the Future With 'NoSQL' Database
19 January 2012, WIRED

Bungee Connect Opens up and Adds Amazon SimpleDB Access | Amazon Web Services
22 February 2008, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

Albany Firebirds single-game tickets on sale Friday
29 February 2024, Troy Record

DoNot Team's New Firebird Backdoor Hits Pakistan and Afghanistan
23 October 2023, The Hacker News

How to Run Multiple Instances of Firebird Server - opensource for you
31 August 2019, Open Source For You

Top 15 Databases to Use in 2024 and Beyond
4 June 2021, Appinventiv

Former Trinity DB Ross stars as Sharks rout Firebirds
1 December 2021, The Florida Times-Union

provided by Google News

The re-emergence of time-series – O'Reilly
6 April 2013, oreilly.com

provided by Google News

Share this page