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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. H2GIS vs. HBase vs. Realm vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  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 ScioreSpatial extension of H2Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSWide column storeDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score7.71
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.h2gis.orghbase.apache.orgrealm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonCNRSApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SC
Initial release20072013200820142011
Current release2.3.4, January 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2yes infoCoprocessors in Javano inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyesno

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