DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Hazelcast vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Hazelcast vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB

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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 widely adopted in-memory data grid

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

druid.apache.org

hazelcast.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Hazelcast

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2012

2008

2011

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

23.3, December 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

BSD

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

Replicated Map

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

yes

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

off heap cache

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

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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