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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graphite vs. Lovefield vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graphite vs. Lovefield vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAmazonChris DavisGooglePerconaSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20072006201420151992
Current release2.1.12, February 20173.4.10-2.10, November 201717, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate 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 applicationnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDByes infovia In-Memory Engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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