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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Kylin vs. Dgraph vs. Faircom DB

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Name

Description

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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

drill.apache.org

kylin.apache.org

dgraph.io

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

drill.apache.org/docs

kylin.apache.org/docs

dgraph.io/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

FairCom Corporation

Initial release

2007

2012

2015

2016

1979

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

V12, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Supported programming languages

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

C++

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

yes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Depending on the underlying data source

Planned for future releases

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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