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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. H2GIS vs. PostGIS vs. SiteWhere vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. H2GIS vs. PostGIS vs. SiteWhere vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  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 H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQLM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.h2gis.orgpostgis.netgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homepostgis.net/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperAmazonCNRSSiteWhereRocket Software
Initial release20072013200520101985
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesoptional
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 SQLnoyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2user defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDnoACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQLUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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