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What is Amazon SimpleDB?

Amazon SimpleDB is a highly available NoSQL data store that offloads the work of database administration. Developers simply store and query data items via web services requests and Amazon SimpleDB does the rest.

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Non-Relational Databases
July 2025
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Amazon SimpleDB mindshare

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Non-Relational Databases
As of July 2025, the mindshare of Amazon SimpleDB in the Non-Relational Databases category stands at 0.9%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

  • "Amazon SimpleDB is beneficial to me due to its reduced development time, adaptability, improved agility, and its ability to handle unstructured data."

Room for Improvement

  • "The ability to adapt database structures like tables and data types to changing data requirements without causing major disruptions or extensive code changes is an area where I feel improvement is needed."
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Learn more about Amazon SimpleDB

Unbound by the strict requirements of a relational database, Amazon SimpleDB is optimized to provide high availability and flexibility, with little or no administrative burden. Behind the scenes, Amazon SimpleDB creates and manages multiple geographically distributed replicas of your data automatically to enable high availability and data durability. The service charges you only for the resources actually consumed in storing your data and serving your requests. You can change your data model on the fly, and data is automatically indexed for you. With Amazon SimpleDB, you can focus on application development without worrying about infrastructure provisioning, high availability, software maintenance, schema and index management, or performance tuning.

Amazon SimpleDB was previously known as SimpleDB.

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SAP Senior Architect at Cognizant
Verified user of Amazon SimpleDB
Mar 18, 2025
Adapting to changing data needs with reduced development time and schema flexibility

Pros

"Amazon SimpleDB is beneficial to me due to its reduced development time, adaptability, improved agility, and its ability to handle unstructured data."

Cons

"The ability to adapt database structures like tables and data types to changing data requirements without causing major disruptions or extensive code changes is an area where I feel improvement is needed."

What is our primary use case?

I use Amazon SimpleDB for managing my SAP database.

What is most valuable?

Amazon SimpleDB is beneficial to me due to its reduced development time, adaptability, improved agility, and its ability to handle unstructured data. It also offers schema flexibility, which aids me in documentation, version control, modular design, data normalization, and denormalization. With this, I have a clear understanding of the data, considering future challenges, and designing for expansion.

*Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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