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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  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 BigTableSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeSearch engineKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsVector 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
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbhbase.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbhbase.apache.org/­book.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoftOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release2007200820151994
Current release2.3.4, January 2021V118.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
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
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
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.yesnoyes
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 & ABACyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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