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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. LevelDB vs. NSDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server 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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/google/leveldb

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Amazon

Google

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2007

2011

2017

1993

Current release

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Java
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

Eventual Consistency

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

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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