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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Phoenix vs. GridGain vs. Quasardb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  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 dataA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designphoenix.apache.orgwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software FoundationGridGain Systems, Inc.quasardb
Initial release20072012201420072009
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019GridGain 8.5.13.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, C++, .NetC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersnononoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)with Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate 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 applicationnoACIDACIDACID
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.noyesyesyes 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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancySecurity Hooks for custom implementationsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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