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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. TDengine

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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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	14.21
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.71
Rank	#134	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	2.11
Rank	#115	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2012

2007

2019

Current release

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

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)

yes

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