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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. HarperDB vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. HarperDB vs. JSqlDb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 StorageA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.harperdb.iojsqldb.org (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.org/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationElasticHarperDBKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release20072012201020172018
Current release1.20.3, January 20238.6, January 20233.1, August 20210.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.js
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentdynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoJSON data typesno
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 automaticallynoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate 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 applicationnonoAtomic execution of specific operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes, using LMDByes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceMemcached and Redis integrationyes
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 and roles

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