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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Hypertable vs. Qdrant vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Hypertable vs. Qdrant vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreIn-memory caching systemAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeWide column storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcachelot.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbqdrant.tech/­documentationdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAmazonHypertable Inc.QdrantTimescale
Initial release20072015200920212017
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++RustC
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleannumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIMemcached protocolC++ API
Thrift
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
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++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelCollection-level replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonoKey-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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