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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Bangdb vs. FoundationDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Bangdb vs. FoundationDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
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 dataConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgbangdb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.bangdb.comapple.github.io/­foundationdb
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsSachin Sinha, BangDBFoundationDB
Initial release2007201220122013
Current release29.0.1, April 2024BangDB 2.0, October 20216.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsno infosome layers support typing
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 automaticallyyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSQL like support with command line toolsupported in specific SQL layer only
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoin SQL-layer only
Triggersnonoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyLinearizable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoin SQL-layer only
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only 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 systemyes (enterprise version only)no

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