DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. SAP HANA vs. SpaceTime

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

Google

SAP

Mireo

Initial release

2007

2010

2020

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Immediate Consistency

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

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