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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Quasardb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 ScioreOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Distributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCloudflarequasardb
Initial release20072012201320182009
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes infointeger and binary
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 automaticallyyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual 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 applicationnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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