DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQLite

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Serverless Time Series DBMS

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2007

1991

2015

2000

Current release

5.7

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (https)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

token access

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

using Azure authentication

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