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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. GeoSpock vs. InfinityDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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 ScioreAnalytic DBMS for HadoopSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orggeospock.comboilerbay.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaGeoSpockBoiler Bay Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2007201320022014
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.0, September 20194.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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 automaticallyyestemporal, categoricalno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBCAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaJava
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingAutomatic shardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
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.nononono
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 infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenono

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