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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Initial release

2019

2007

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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