DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

druid.apache.org

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Cloudflare

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2007

2012

2018

2013

2015

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

yes

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access 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 system

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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