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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  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 HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.org/­docsimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20072012201320131984
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.1.0, June 20222.7.6, April 20247.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
HP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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 automaticallynoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
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 integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnononoyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
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 infoDepending on used storage engineno
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 Kerberossimple rights management via user accounts
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