DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Dgraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Dgraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. NuoDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#312  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.48
Rank#158  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score134.78
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.99
Rank#195  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdgraph.iowww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdgraph.io/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonDgraph Labs, Inc.ElasticDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2007201620102013
Current release8.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageGoJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsnoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesJava, SQL
Triggersnononoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationyesShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication via Raftyesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC
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.noMemcached and Redis integrationyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)no infoPlanned for future releasesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Alibaba Cloud TSDBAmazon SimpleDBDgraphElasticsearchNuoDB
DB-Engines blog posts

The popularity of cloud-based DBMSs has increased tenfold in four years
7 February 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market
3 August 2015, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2017
2 January 2018, Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann

Elasticsearch moved into the top 10 most popular database management systems
3 July 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

show all

Meet some database management systems you are likely to hear more about in the future
4 August 2014, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

SQL and TimescaleDB. This article takes a closer look into… | by Alibaba Cloud
31 July 2019, DataDrivenInvestor

provided by Google News

Amazon SimpleDB Management in Eclipse | AWS News Blog
22 July 2009, AWS Blog

Hands-on Tutorial for Getting Started with Amazon SimpleDB
28 May 2010, Packt Hub

Amazon DynamoDB Serves Trillions Of Requests Per Month While Counterpart SimpleDB Is No Longer A Listed Product On AWS
12 November 2013, TechCrunch

Amazon Goes Back to the Future With 'NoSQL' Database
19 January 2012, WIRED

Bungee Connect Opens up and Adds Amazon SimpleDB Access | Amazon Web Services
22 February 2008, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

Dgraph on AWS: Setting up a horizontally scalable graph database | Amazon Web Services
1 September 2020, AWS Blog

Popular Open Source GraphQL Company Dgraph Secures $6M in Seed Round with New Leadership
20 July 2022, PR Newswire

Dgraph Rises to the Top Graph Database on GitHub With 11 G2 Badges and 11M Downloads
26 May 2021, Business Wire

Dgraph raises $11.5 million for scalable graph database solutions
31 July 2019, VentureBeat

Dgraph GraphQL database users detail graph use cases
20 April 2021, TechTarget

provided by Google News

Introducing Elasticsearch Vector Database to Azure OpenAI Service On Your Data (Preview)
26 March 2024, GovTech

Elasticsearch Open Inference API Supports Cohere Rerank 3
11 April 2024, Business Wire

ElasticSearch Goes Deep on OpenTelemetry with eBPF Donation
13 March 2024, The New Stack

12K Misconfigured Elasticsearch Buckets Ravaged by Extortionists
29 November 2023, Dark Reading

AWS Marketplace: Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service) Comments
18 March 2024, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

Dassault Systèmes Announces the Acquisition of NuoDB, a Cloud-Native Distributed SQL Database Leader
25 November 2020, Dassault Systèmes

Deploy the NuoDB Database in Docker Containers
16 October 2017, The New Stack

NuoDB 4.0 improves cloud-native database capabilities
31 July 2019, TechTarget

Distributed SQL Database NuoDB 4.0 Supports Kubernetes Operator and Indexing Improvements
7 October 2019, InfoQ.com

NuoDB empowers distributed database users to optimize cloud and container resources with new graphical dashboard
10 April 2018, Daily Host News

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

SingleStore logo

The database to transact, analyze and contextualize your data in real time.
Try it today.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Ontotext logo

GraphDB allows you to link diverse data, index it for semantic search and enrich it via text analysis to build big knowledge graphs. Get it free.

Present your product here