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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Pinot vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Pinot vs. KairosDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  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 dataRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.85
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#274  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgpinot.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.pinot.apache.orgkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation and contributors
Initial release2007201220152013
Current release30.0.0, June 20241.0.0, September 20231.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
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 systemsimple password-based access control

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