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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Interbase vs. STSdb

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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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#359	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

boilerbay.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Amazon

Boiler Bay Inc.

Embarcadero

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2002

1984

2011

Current release

4.0

InterBase 2020, December 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Interbase Change Views

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

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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