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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb

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Name

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

impala.apache.org

postgis.net

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

postgis.net/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2007

2013

2005

2013

2011

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

yes

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.

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, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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