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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. HBase vs. Kinetica vs. Realm

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  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 ScioreWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbhbase.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comrealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.kinetica.comrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetKineticaRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release2007200820122014
Current release2.3.4, January 20217.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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 automaticallynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes

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