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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blueflood vs. SQLite vs. StarRocks

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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 Cassandra

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

blueflood.io

www.sqlite.org

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Amazon

Rackspace

Dwayne Richard Hipp

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2007

2013

2000

2020

Current release

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

via file-system locks

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)

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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