DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA 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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

manticoresearch.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

manual.manticoresearch.com

help.sap.com/hana

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Manticore Software

SAP

SiteWhere

Initial release

2007

2017

2010

Current release

6.0, February 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

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)

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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