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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. HugeGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. HugeGraph

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  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 real-time computations and queriesGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigobject.iowww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bigobject.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.CCRi and othersBaidu
Initial release2007201520142018
Current release4.0.5, February 20240.9
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 automaticallyyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonedepending on storage layeryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonedepending on storage layeryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesvia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
nonedepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers, roles and permissions

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