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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Axibase vs. eXtremeDB 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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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	0.64
Rank	#208	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS
	#13	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.mcobject.com/extremedbfamily

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/axibase/atsd

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

McObject

Timescale

Initial release

2007

2013

2001

2017

Current release

15585

8.1, November 2019

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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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful 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#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

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

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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.

yes

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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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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