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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blazegraph vs. KairosDB vs. MonetDB vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blazegraph vs. KairosDB vs. MonetDB vs. RRDtool

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  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 ScioreHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A relational database management system that stores data in columnsIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbblazegraph.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.monetdb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwiki.blazegraph.comkairosdb.github.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAmazonBlazegraphMonetDB BVTobias Oetiker
Initial release20072006201320041999
Current release2.1.5, March 20191.2.2, November 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesNumeric data only
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languagenoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.noyes
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)simple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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