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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. VelocityDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonAmazonCambridge SemanticsVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2012200720182011
Current release2.3, January 20217.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
.Net
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions and aggregatesno
TriggersnonononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesMulti-source replication in MPP-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoKerberos/HDFS data loadingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infonot needed in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesBased on Windows Authentication

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