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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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 PostgreSQLDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbpostgis.netsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAmazonOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplice MachineSTS Soft SC
Initial release20072005200920142011
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.2.0, December 20223.1, March 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCErlangJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes 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.yesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesrestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsErlangyes infoJavano
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infono "single point of failure"Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
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 integritynoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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