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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. DuckDB vs. Riak TS

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  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 ScioreAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigobject.iocachelot.ioduckdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bigobject.ioduckdb.org/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20072015201520182015
Current release0.10, February 20243.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lessLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesno
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 automaticallyyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanonoErlang
Triggersnonononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenonenoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
nonenoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nononono

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