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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.sadasengine.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAmazonSADAS s.r.l.Sybase, SAPApache Software FoundationAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20072006199320142008
Current release8.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioningnoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
nonenone
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configurednoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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