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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SAP IQ vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SAP IQ vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Titan

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdbgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonGoogleSAP, formerly SybaseTencentAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20072015199420132012
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesyes
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerAutomatic shardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSAP/Sybase Replication ServerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesHadoop integrationnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
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 roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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