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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Axibase vs. IRONdb vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.53
Rank	#111	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.30
Rank	#258	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.93
Rank	#102	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

axibase.com/products/axibase-time-series-database

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/axibase/atsd

docs.circonus.com/irondb

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

Circonus LLC.

Timescale

Initial release

2007

2013

2017

Current release

15585

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

text, numeric, histograms

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

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

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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