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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. H2GIS vs. Hive vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 H2data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoopa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.h2gis.orghive.apache.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazonCNRSApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSQream Technologies
Initial release2007201320122017
Current release3.1.3, April 20222022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2Access rights for users, groups and roles

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