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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenEdge vs. TerarkDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

geospock.com

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

GeoSpock

Progress Software Corporation

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2007

1984

2016

Current release

2.0, September 2019

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access 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

Users and groups

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Recent citations in the news

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