DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. QuestDB vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. QuestDB vs. Splice Machine

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational 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	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

questdb.io

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

questdb.io/docs

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Microsoft

QuestDB Technology Inc

Splice Machine

Initial release

2016

2007

1989

2014

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Java

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

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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