DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenQM vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenQM vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. Valentina Server

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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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

geospock.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon

GeoSpock

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Transwarp

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2007

1993

1999

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.4-12

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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