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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SiteWhere vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SiteWhere vs. Valentina Server

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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 ScioreA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-servergithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAmazonGooglePerconaSiteWhereParadigma Software
Initial release20072017200820101999
Current release8.0.36-28, 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
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)Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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