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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. Blazegraph vs. JaguarDB vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. Blazegraph vs. JaguarDB vs. KairosDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.58
Rank#244  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.77
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbpinot.apache.orgblazegraph.comwww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.pinot.apache.orgwiki.blazegraph.comwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsBlazegraphDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20072015200620152013
Current release1.0.0, September 20232.1.5, March 20193.3 July 20231.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSPARQL is used as query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)rights management via user accountssimple password-based access control

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