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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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 dataBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA widely adopted in-memory data gridNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score5.72
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comhazelcast.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthazelcast.org/­imdg/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsHazelcastSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20072012201620082013
Current release30.0.0, June 20245.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesJavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factoryes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual 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 applicationnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
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 systemyesRole-based access controlsimple password-based access control

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