DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. MarkLogic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. MarkLogic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	6.63
Rank	#54	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	4.15
Rank	#70	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.progress.com/marklogic

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Google

MarkLogic Corp.

Sybase, SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2007

2017

2001

1993

2014

Current release

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

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

yes

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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, with Range Indexes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access 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. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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