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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Google Cloud Datastore

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed 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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

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

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

cloud.google.com/datastore

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

Initial release

2007

2016

2008

Current release

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes, details here

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 query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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)

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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