DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Geode vs. GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Geode vs. GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

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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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Amazon

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Gigaspaces Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2007

2002

2000

2013

2017

Current release

1.1, February 2017

15.5, September 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

yes

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 per client and object definable

Role-based access control

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