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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAnalytic DBMS for HadoopBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.dolphindb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.org/­docsimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDolphinDB, Inc
Initial release20072012201320162018
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.1.0, June 2022v2.00.4, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Depending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosyesAdministrators, Users, Groups

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