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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Infobright vs. SQL.JS

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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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.00
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2007

2005

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

no

no

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

yes

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.

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

no

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

no

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

no

no

Triggers

no

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

no

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Recent citations in the news

New SimpleDB Goodies: Enhanced Select, Larger Result Sets, Mandatory HTTPS | Amazon Web Services
20 May 2009, AWS Blog

Hands-on Tutorial for Getting Started with Amazon SimpleDB
28 May 2010, Packt Hub

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12 November 2013, TechCrunch

Amazon SimpleDB Management in Eclipse | AWS News Blog
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