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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Databricks vs. GeoSpock

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score76.33
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#11  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.databricks.comgeospock.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.databricks.com
DeveloperAmazonDatabricksGeoSpock
Initial release20072013
Current release2.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyes
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Implementation languageJava, Javascript
Server operating systemshostedhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyestemporal, categorical
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per table
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Amazon SimpleDBDatabricksGeoSpock
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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