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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

RDBMS for high security requirements

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

linter.ru

postgis.net

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

postgis.net/documentation

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Amazon

relex.ru

Initial release

2007

1990

2005

2008

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

user defined functions

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

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

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

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

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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Recent citations in the news

A Place for Everything – Amazon SimpleDB
14 December 2007, AWS Blog

Amazon DynamoDB Serves Trillions Of Requests Per Month While Counterpart SimpleDB Is No Longer A Listed ...
12 November 2013, TechCrunch

Hands-on Tutorial for Getting Started with Amazon SimpleDB
28 May 2010, Packt Hub

An Overview of Amazon Web Services - Cloud Application Architectures [Book]
22 September 2018, O'Reilly Media

New SimpleDB Goodies: Enhanced Select, Larger Result Sets, Mandatory HTTPS | Amazon Web Services
20 May 2009, AWS Blog

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