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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. mSQL vs. Tibero vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. mSQL vs. Tibero vs. ToroDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB 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 ScioreDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument 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
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudanthughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberogithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Hughes TechnologiesTmaxSoft8Kdata
Initial release20072010199420032016
Current release4.4, October 20216, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangCC and AssemblerJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or compositeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
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 possiblenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingnoyesyes
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.nonono infoplanned for next version
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 databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)Access rights for users and roles

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