SimpleDB Reviews & Product Details

Seamless UX; User friendly; Business/Individual user's layout Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Almost nothing to discuss about disadvantages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The data that you store in SimpleDB can be accessed from the Internet and from EC2. The security of that data is vital for many applications, while the security of the underlying web services account should be important to everyone. To protect data integrity, access to SimpleDB, no matter what type, is protected by account credentials. Every request must provide the correct and authorized digital signature(s) or else it is rejected with an error code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are still some modifications that could be done to high request load handling. There are some instances when you notice a severe latency all determined by the load at hand, but could be more efficient in its request handling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was great when it was the only NoSQL DB supported by AWS. I love that every key is indexed so it was easy to construct very complex queries even in a highly-scalable environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Did you know there are limits to the number of records you can have? I didn't. I also didn't know there was a limit to how much data you could have on one record, or the number of keys you could have on one record. Now that DynamoDB is out and really in it's prime, there is *no reason to still use SDB*. Just don't use it anymore. DynamoDB is way faster and easier to scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

i dont have to think, the features are easy to figure out Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

too many little features; by that I mean, not enough advanced features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's just what you are used to. Nothing fancy, no tricks or huge consistency issues. With minimum distributed systems knowledge you can use this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Performance doesn't match DynamoDB, but it's not supposed to. This is a simpler version, with lower performance requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple database to set up and start using Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No issues with Amazon SimpleDB at the moment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The simplicity of getting up and running without having to install software or configure or size a server. Basically just name a data store then write key/value pairs to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Most of the things I would describe as dislikes are simply a mis-application of the Simple DB. No transactions, no joins (at least not in the SQL sense of the word.) Trying to get complicated data structures to remain consistent within Simple DB can raise more complexity than it is worth resolving. Then again, it is called Simple DB, so if you are trying to do something enormously complex, this is probably the wrong tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I worked on it as a part of school project where we implemented buffer management, non-quiescient checkpointing, joins and also implemented scan and plan interfaces.

I've got to look at the simpleDB's original code and also work on some parts of it.

I've found that simpleDB is pretty simple to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I did not get to see the enterprise version of the simpleDB, but I felt that the version simpleDB I worked on was not going to meet the enterprise standards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You need not install anything and you need not have servers , if you want to use Big data system for once especially for student projects, you can use AWS simple DB, It is very simple to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Creating EC2 connection is sometimes confusing and I need to do several times. It's difficult to customize Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As the name suggests its simple! Storing the data and managing is as simple as such using a webservice.

Also it is non relational so there are constraints in maintaining for different kinds of data.

I was using this database as a combination of AWS, EC2, S3. Setting this database was as difficult and confusing as any other AWS instances. There are different country regions and to choose where the database would be and then create domains, data, attributes etc etc. But this is also an advantage as it writes to multiple zones and durable.

Similar to AWS access management can be configured at user level and for domains. It can be best used when use cases are on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Like maintaining S3 metadata on simple db. The pricing is like pay for what you use so that should be OK if it meets your requirements. Though amazon dynamo db is getting popular like very other database simple db has its own characteristics to be considered for! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main issue with this database is doing any algebraic operations or running date functions on columns or aggregations etc. Also pricing. For most of the use cases we can use other famous databases like HBase especially when you have set up Hadoop cluster and running Map Reduce jobs.

Indexes wise simple DB looks better. It automatically indexes all data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.