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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. OushuDB

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Name

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Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.gbase.cn

geospock.com

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Amazon

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

GeoSpock

Oushu

Initial release

2007

2004

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0, September 2019

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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