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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. dBASE vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 ScioredBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial extension of H2A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.dbase.comwww.h2database.comwww.h2gis.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperAmazonAsthon TateThomas MuellerCNRS
Initial release20071979200520132009
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20192.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 automaticallyyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
dBase proprietary IDEJavaJavaGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infobased on H2no
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)no
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2no

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