Amazon SimpleDB vs. InterSystems IRIS

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
InterSystems IRIS
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform that includes a multi-model transactional data management engine, an application development platform, and interoperability engine, and an open analytics platform. It is is the next generation of InterSystems' data management software. It includes…N/A
Pricing
Amazon SimpleDBInterSystems IRIS
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 SimpleDBInterSystems IRIS
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Features
Amazon SimpleDBInterSystems IRIS
Database Development
Comparison of Database Development features of Product A and Product B
Amazon SimpleDB
-
Ratings
InterSystems IRIS
7.3
44 Ratings
15% below category average
Version control tools00 Ratings6.838 Ratings
Test data generation00 Ratings7.739 Ratings
Performance optimization tools00 Ratings6.942 Ratings
Schema maintenance00 Ratings7.542 Ratings
Database change management00 Ratings7.543 Ratings
Database Administration
Comparison of Database Administration features of Product A and Product B
Amazon SimpleDB
-
Ratings
InterSystems IRIS
7.4
44 Ratings
15% below category average
User management00 Ratings7.444 Ratings
Database security00 Ratings7.544 Ratings
Database status reporting00 Ratings7.641 Ratings
Change management00 Ratings7.443 Ratings
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Amazon SimpleDBInterSystems IRIS
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User Ratings
Amazon SimpleDBInterSystems IRIS
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.8
(44 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon SimpleDBInterSystems IRIS
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
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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InterSystems
Intersystems IRIS is a really great tool for Interoperability. It has so many capabilities out of the box and then such a great developer community on top of that, that there are really no limits to what you can do in terms of data manipulation and translation. Personally I find it to be a great tool if you are looking for Interoperability software.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Flexibility
  • Easy to learn and use
  • AWS integration
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InterSystems
  • Connecting with mutliple vendor platforms and systems allowing us to consume and provide data as needed.
  • Allowed us to implement our own RESTful api engine to server data to our internal applications.
  • Setting up their recommendations for high availability allow us to perform server maintenance with minimal down time to our users.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Non AWS environments
  • Strict storage limit (but well we have DynamoDB for storage issues)
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InterSystems
  • Enhanced documentation, more comprehensive and user-friendly documentation, including detailed tutorials and examples
  • Improving compatibility and integrations with others programming languages
  • Introducing tools and techniques to optimize the performance of ObjectScript applications, such as profiling tools, performance monitoring utilities, and code optimization guidelines
  • A better compatibility with Python libraries
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Usability
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
InterSystems
The interface is very intuitive, the documentation is very good so it is not complicated to operate.
The security is complex, but you can create a special role to access and the user ONLY can operate with the part that it allows.
Also, you can examine the data very quick with the SQL Browser integrated.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
InterSystems
The InterSystems WRC has always been helpful and responsive. The folks I have spoken with are always understanding of our needs and questions and regardless of if the question is simple or complex we are always met with the same professionalism and helpfulness every time. I have no hesitations contacting InterSystems for help!
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Implementation Rating
Amazon AWS
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InterSystems
Will done based on a proper planning, so this will makes execution more easier and better.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
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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InterSystems
We are using InterSystems IRIS [especially] for database operations as the query performance is really good for [a large] amount of customer data. You can easily integrate for any application like web, desktop, and many more. It also provides BI functionality which is also very easy to implement using InterSystems IRIS[.]
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Reduced database administration time
  • Reduced data model analysis time
  • Lower cost of resources in projects in general
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InterSystems
  • Very Fast and scalable software to deal with big data flow, safe and robust.
  • The studio IDE is quite old fashion and lacks a few facilities
  • amazing for complex data consumption, its milyi-model capability wich allows multiple different models for a single set of codes.
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