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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. etcd vs. Hyprcubd

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

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

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

hyprcubd.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2007

Current release

3.4, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

gRPC (https)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

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.

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)

token access

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