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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. ArangoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Databricks vs. QuestDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Document store
Key-value store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.32
Rank#90  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbarangodb.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.databricks.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.arangodb.comdocs.databricks.comquestdb.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperAmazonArangoDB Inc.Atos Convergence CreatorsDatabricksQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20072012201620132014
Current release3.11.5, November 20231703
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashoptionalyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononowith Databricks SQLSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
LDAPJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
All languages with LDAP bindingsPython
R
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptnouser defined functions and aggregatesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infosince version 2.0Sharding infocell divisionhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factoryesyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
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 applicationACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesLDAP bind authentication
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Amazon SimpleDBArangoDBAtos Standard Common RepositoryDatabricksQuestDB
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Supported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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