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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. ObjectBox

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is 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 ScioreHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA multi-model DBMS and application serverEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.gigaspaces.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­google/­leveldbobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAmazonGigaspaces TechnologiesInterSystemsGoogleObjectBox Limited
Initial release20072000199720112017
Current release15.5, September 20202018.1.4, May 20201.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnono
Triggersnoyes, event driven architectureyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replicationnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoyes
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