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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Realm vs. SAP IQ vs. Trino

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  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 ScioreDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantrealm.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmltrino.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantrealm.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SAP, formerly SybaseTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20072010201419942012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyesyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersnoyesyes infoChange Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexerdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSAP/Sybase Replication Serverdepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access control
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Amazon SimpleDBIBM CloudantRealmSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQTrino
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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