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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Qdrant vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
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 HadoopA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingSpatial extension of SQLiteKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaQdrantAlessandro FurieriSTS Soft SC
Initial release20072013202120082011
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0.0, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++RustC++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lessWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorCollection-level replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDno
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.noyesyes
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 KerberosKey-based authenticationnono

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