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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Ingres vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Ingres vs. SurrealDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 FlinkA widely adopted in-memory data gridWell established RDBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbiotdb.apache.orghazelcast.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingressurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingressurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationHazelcastActian CorporationSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2007201820081974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2022
Current release1.1.0, April 20235.3.6, November 202311.2, May 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCRust
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes
Triggersnoyesyes infoEventsyes
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)Shardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasyes infoReplicated MapIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparkyesnono
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
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
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 commitedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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)yesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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