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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. H2GIS vs. SQL.JS

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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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Spatial extension of H2

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.arcadedb.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Arcade Data

CNRS

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2007

2021

2013

2012

Current release

September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

yes

based on H2

no

Triggers

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

no

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

based on H2

no

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