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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. ClickHouse vs. MarkLogic vs. Milvus vs. Warp 10

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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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

clickhouse.com

www.progress.com/marklogic

milvus.io

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

clickhouse.com/docs

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon

Clickhouse Inc.

MarkLogic Corp.

SenX

Initial release

2007

2016

2001

2019

2015

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

11.0, December 2022

2.4.4, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

key based and custom

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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