DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Interbase vs. MySQL vs. OrigoDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Interbase vs. MySQL vs. OrigoDB vs. TimesTen

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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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used open source RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.mysql.com

origodb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

dev.mysql.com/doc

origodb.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Amazon

Embarcadero

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Robert Friberg et al

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2007

1984

1995

2009

under the name LiveDB

1998

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.3.0, January 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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