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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. gStore vs. HyperSQL

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  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 ScioreA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledben.gstore.cnhsqldb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledben.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperAmazon
Initial release200720162001
Current release1.2, November 20232.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava, SQL
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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