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Amazon SimpleDB vs Datomic Cloud: What are the differences?
Developers describe Amazon SimpleDB as "Highly available and flexible non-relational data store". Developers simply store and query data items via web services requests and Amazon SimpleDB does the rest. Behind the scenes, Amazon SimpleDB creates and manages multiple geographically distributed replicas of your data automatically to enable high availability and data durability. Amazon SimpleDB provides a simple web services interface to create and store multiple data sets, query your data easily, and return the results. Your data is automatically indexed, making it easy to quickly find the information that you need. There is no need to pre-define a schema or change a schema if new data is added later. And scale-out is as simple as creating new domains, rather than building out new servers. On the other hand, Datomic Cloud is detailed as "General-purpose fully ACID transactional database made specifically to run on and leverage AWS". A transactional database with a flexible data model, elastic scaling, and rich queries. Datomic is designed from the ground up to run on AWS. Datomic leverages AWS technology, including DynamoDB, S3, EFS, and CloudFormation to provide a fully integrated solution.
Amazon SimpleDB and Datomic Cloud can be categorized as "NoSQL Database as a Service" tools.
Some of the features offered by Amazon SimpleDB are:
- Amazon SimpleDB automatically manages infrastructure provisioning, hardware and software maintenance, replication and indexing of data items, and performance tuning.
- Amazon SimpleDB automatically creates multiple geographically distributed copies of each data item you store.
- You can also choose between consistent or eventually consistent read requests, gaining the flexibility to match read performance (latency and throughput) and consistency requirements to the demands of your application, or even disparate parts within your application.
- Scaling
- Reliability and Availability
- Security
On the other hand, Datomic Cloud provides the following key features:
