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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. BigObject vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 ScioreAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#159  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbiotdb.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.bigobject.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationBigObject, Inc.
Initial release2007201820152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.1.0, April 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesLuauser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)nonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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