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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blueflood vs. GeoSpock vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blueflood vs. GeoSpock vs. IRONdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.90
Rank#145  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#350  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbblueflood.iogeospock.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceGeoSpockCirconus LLC.
Initial release200720132017
Current release2.0, September 2019V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 automaticallynotemporal, categoricalno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTJDBCHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, in Lua
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic shardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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