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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SWC-DB vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SWC-DB vs. Tarantool

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  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 ScioreA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbrockset.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.tarantool.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.rockset.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperAmazonRocksetSAP infoformerly SybaseAlex KashirinVK
Initial release20072019199220202008
Current release17, July 20150.5, April 20212.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenodynamic typingyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.no infoingestion from XML files supportedyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesSQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlnoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnonoyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationAutomatic shardingnoneShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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