DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Google BigQuery vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Google BigQuery vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

druid.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

Initial release

2016

2007

2012

2010

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

MVCC

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 rights based on subaccounts and tokens

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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