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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.geomesa.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Amazon

CCRi and others

Percona

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2007

2014

2015

2018

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Atomic execution of operations

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users and roles

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