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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. CouchDB vs. TDengine vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. CouchDB vs. TDengine vs. TigerGraph

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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 ScioreA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Time Series DBMS and big data platformA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
www.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.tdengine.comdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20072014200520192017
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.3.3, December 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnonoyesyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesRole-based access control
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Amazon SimpleDBApache PhoenixCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"TDengineTigerGraph
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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