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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. dBASE vs. Hypertable vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. dBASE vs. Hypertable vs. Riak KV

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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 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.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.dbase.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAmazonAsthon TateHypertable Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2007197920092009
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20190.9.8.11, March 20163.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnono
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.C++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
dBase proprietary IDEC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noErlang
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
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 DBMSnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 rolesnoyes, using Riak Security

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