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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. AntDB vs. GeoSpock vs. H2GIS

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Spatial extension of H2

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

geospock.com

www.h2gis.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Amazon

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

GeoSpock

CNRS

Initial release

2007

2013

Current release

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

yes

based on H2

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Recent citations in the news

Amazon SimpleDB Expands Web Services
31 May 2024, Data Center Knowledge

A Place for Everything – Amazon SimpleDB
14 December 2007, AWS Blog

Amazon DynamoDB Serves Trillions Of Requests Per Month While Counterpart SimpleDB Is No Longer A Listed ...
12 November 2013, TechCrunch

Hands-on Tutorial for Getting Started with Amazon SimpleDB
28 May 2010, Packt Hub

An Overview of Amazon Web Services - Cloud Application Architectures [Book]
22 September 2018, O'Reilly Media

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Cambridge-based data analytics startup GeoSpock lands €4.6 million
2 October 2020, EU-Startups

nChain leads investment round in extreme-scale data firm GeoSpock
2 October 2020, CoinGeek

Smart Cities, Autonomous Vehicles, Artificial General Intelligence Robotics: Q&A with Steve Marsh, GeoSpock
16 May 2018, ExchangeWire

GeoSpock’s extreme-scale data mission in $5.4m funding boost
8 October 2020, Cambridge Independent

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