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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Oracle Coherence

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Key-value store

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Score	1.63
Rank	#134	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#132	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Amazon

Oracle

Initial release

2007

Current release

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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