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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graphite vs. H2GIS vs. LeanXcale vs. Quasardb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 ScioreData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperSpatial extension of H2A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.h2gis.orgwww.leanxcale.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAmazonChris DavisCNRSLeanXcalequasardb
Initial release20072006201320152009
Current release3.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infothrough Apache DerbySQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2no
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infobased on H2Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyes infobased on H2Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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