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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Databend vs. GeoMesa vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 ScioreAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.geomesa.orgrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.databend.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonDatabend LabsCCRi and othersThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017STS Soft SC
Initial release20072021201420092011
Current release1.0.59, April 20235.0.0, May 20242.4.1, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageRustScalaC++C#
Server operating systemshostedhosted
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 automaticallynoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersnononoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonedepending on storage layerSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonedepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationyesnoAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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