Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon SimpleDB
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Amazon SimpleDB is a non-relational data store and service.
$0
per GB allowance
Google Cloud Datastore
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Google Cloud Datastore is a NoSQL "schemaless" database as a service, supporting diverse data types. The database is managed; Google manages sharding and replication and prices according to storage and activity.N/A
Pricing
Amazon SimpleDBGoogle Cloud Datastore
Editions & Modules
Machine Utilization
$0.00 for first 25 hours $0.14 per machine hour over 25 hours
per GB allowance
Structured Data Storage
$0.00 for first GB-month $0.25 per GB-month thereafter
per GB allowance
Free Tier
25 SimpleDB Machine Hours and 1 GB of Storage for free each month
per GB allowance
Data Transfer
All data transfer in is $0.00 per GB
per GB allowance
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon SimpleDBGoogle Cloud Datastore
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Amazon SimpleDBGoogle Cloud Datastore
NoSQL Databases
Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Product A and Product B
Amazon SimpleDB
-
Ratings
Google Cloud Datastore
10.0
Ratings
12% above category average
Performance00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Availability00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Concurrency00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Security00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Data model flexibility00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Deployment model flexibility00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon SimpleDBGoogle Cloud Datastore
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
9.9
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon SimpleDBGoogle Cloud Datastore
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for: Games, Chat rooms, real time software like corporate events, marathons and so. Anytime and anywhere you could use a NoSQL DB you should think of SimpleDB.
As an arduous AWS user, Amazon SimpleDB easily integrates with EC2 and other AWS module; and if you are not an AWS user, you also have a fantastic tool that will solve the problem for which you are focused.
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Using Google Cloud Datastore in conjunction with Google AppEngine was a very seamless integration and much easier than using other datastores since so much of the configuration is abstracted for you. Because of this, creating simple applications is very easy and getting Google Cloud Datastore to power the backend ties everything together. If we were using Google Compute Engine, I'd imagine the same seamless experience would be there as well.
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Pros
  • Flexibility
  • Easy to learn and use
  • AWS integration
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  • It is hosted in GCP, our primary cloud provider.
  • It integrates with all the services we use in GCP.
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Cons
  • Non AWS environments
  • Strict storage limit (but well we have DynamoDB for storage issues)
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  • Part of the Google Cloud Platform walled garden.
  • Pay for read/writes to the datastore, in addition to storage.
  • Not many libraries exist.
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Likelihood to Renew
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I give Google Cloud a full score because it satisfies our needs so well. We host most of our infrastructure on Google Cloud and using Google Cloud Datastore helps us to solve our NoSQL storage problem. and Google Cloud Datastore is so scalable and elastic. It saves us lots of time to maintain and saves us money.
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Alternatives Considered
It integrates beautifully with AWS. In some projects we use SimpleDB while we use DynamoDB for others, according to the characteristics of the project. If the infrastructure is AWS, we always think of one of them.
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We selected Google Cloud Datastore as one of our candidates for our NoSQL data is because it is provided by Google Cloud, which fits our needs. Most of our infrastructure is on Google Cloud, so when we think about the NoSQL database, the first thing we thought about is Google Cloud Datastore. And it proves itself.
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Return on Investment
  • Reduced database administration time
  • Reduced data model analysis time
  • Lower cost of resources in projects in general
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  • Simple billing part of Google Cloud Platform
  • No time spent configuring and maintaining Google Cloud Datastore.
  • Very good uptime for our applications.
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