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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. EXASOL vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems IRIS

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  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 ScioreHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.exasol.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iris
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.cls
DeveloperAmazonExasolCCRi and othersInterSystems
Initial release2007200020142018
Current release5.0.0, May 20242023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScala
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdepending on used data model
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyesno
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 integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoACID
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.yesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes
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