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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. STSdb vs. Vertica vs. WakandaDB

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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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

drill.apache.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.vertica.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

drill.apache.org/docs

vertica.com/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2007

2012

2011

2005

2012

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

12.0.3, January 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C++

C#
Java

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

yes

Triggers

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

yes

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