DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Amazon

SAP, formerly Sybase

Mireo

STS Soft SC

8Kdata

Initial release

2007

1994

2020

2011

2016

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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