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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 ScioreGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial extension of H2A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.92
Rank#73  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.geomesa.orgwww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablestinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperAmazonCCRi and othersCNRSMicrosoft
Initial release20072014201320122009
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2nono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationdepending on storage layernoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layeryes infobased on H2yes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on H2Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesno

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