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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. IRONdb vs. RRDtool vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. IRONdb vs. RRDtool vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 systemA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIndustry 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.A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph 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
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcachelot.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/oss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAmazonCirconus LLC.Tobias OetikerTranswarp
Initial release2007201520171999
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsNumeric 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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIMemcached protocolHTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
OpenCypher
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
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
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 proceduresnonoyes, in Luano
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nononoyes

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