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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Heroic vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Heroic vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#378  Overall
#51  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicorigodb.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbspotify.github.io/­heroicorigodb.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperAmazonSpotifyRobert Friberg et alSybase, SAPSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release200720142009 infounder the name LiveDB19931992
Current release17, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETnoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.NetDelphi
Perl
PHP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
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
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role based authorizationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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