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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Firebolt vs. Hive vs. Sqrrl vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Firebolt vs. Hive vs. Sqrrl vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from Clickhousedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.firebolt.iohive.apache.orgsqrrl.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.firebolt.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperAmazonFirebolt Analytics Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20072020201220122011
Current release3.1.3, April 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoopnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 rolesCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)no

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