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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Linter vs. ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere

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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

RDBMS for high security requirements

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
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Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

linter.ru

objectbox.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.objectbox.io

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon

relex.ru

ObjectBox Limited

SiteWhere

Initial release

2007

1990

2017

2010

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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