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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. chDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. chDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 ScioreAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkAn embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#376  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­simpledbiotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­chdb-io/­chdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldoc.chdb.io
DeveloperAmazonAmazonApache Software Foundation
Initial release2012200720182023
Current release1.1.0, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoIntegration with Hadoop and Spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes

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