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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. LokiJS vs. Netezza vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. LokiJS vs. Netezza vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  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 ScioreIn-memory JavaScript DBMSData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsOracles in-memory data grid solutionNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAmazonIBMOracleSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20072014200020072013
Current release14.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux infoincluded in applianceAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infovia viewsyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyesnoJavaScript
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDconfigurableDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationsimple password-based access control

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