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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. H2GIS vs. OpenEdge vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Spatial extension of H2

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.h2gis.org

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Amazon

CNRS

Progress Software Corporation

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2007

2013

1984

2020

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

based on H2

Users and groups

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