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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. jBASE vs. JSqlDb

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.mcobject.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Amazon

McObject

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2007

2001

1991

2018

Current release

8.2, 2021

5.7

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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