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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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 ScioreWell established RDBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score4.67
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#260  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.actian.com/­ingrestechfort.github.io/­LokiJShelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAmazonActian CorporationSAP infoformerly SybaseSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20071974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201419922013
Current release11.2, May 202217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JavaScript APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlJavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres ReplicatornoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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