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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BoltDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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 ScioreAn embedded key-value store for Go.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgeospock.comwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperAmazonGeoSpockPercona
Initial release200720132015
Current release2.0, September 20193.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
GoActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJavaScript
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
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 applicationyesnono
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.nonoyes infovia In-Memory Engine
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 tableAccess rights for users and roles

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