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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. ArcadeDB vs. Blueflood vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. ArcadeDB vs. Blueflood vs. LokiJS

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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 dataFast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Time Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#358  Overall
#48  Document stores
#38  Graph DBMS
#52  Key-value stores
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgarcadedb.comblueflood.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.arcadedb.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikitechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsArcade DataRackspace
Initial release20072012202120132014
Current release29.0.1, April 2024September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSQL-like query language, no joinsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationship in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
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 systemnono

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