DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Axibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Axibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2007

2013

2012

1998

Current release

15585

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

restricted

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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