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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 ScioreAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformCloud-based data warehousing serviceKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.62
Rank#136  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#248  Overall
#11  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#71  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.18
Rank#166  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#361  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbatoti.iocloud.google.com/­datastorewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.atoti.iocloud.google.com/­datastore/­docs
DeveloperAmazonActiveViamGoogleIBMSTS Soft SC
Initial release2007200820142011
Current release4.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree versions availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, details hereyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)SQL-like query language (GQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonusing Google App EnginePL/SQL, SQL PLno
TriggersnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using Paxosyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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