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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. jBASE vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. jBASE vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd 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 ScioreServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAmazonHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20071974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19912013
Current release11.2, May 20225.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoCC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesoptionalyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesJavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres ReplicatoryesSource-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)token accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelsimple password-based access control

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