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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graph Engine vs. SAP HANA vs. VelocityDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza 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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.graphengine.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

velocitydb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

help.sap.com/hana

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

SAP

VelocityDB Inc

Yanza

Initial release

2007

2010

2011

2015

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Appliance or cloud-service

Any that supports .NET

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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)

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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