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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

origodb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

IBM

Robert Friberg et al

SAP

Initial release

2007

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2010

Current release

2.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

yes

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

depending on model

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

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

Write ahead log

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

yes

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