DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Riak KV

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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

Column-oriented Relational DBMS powering Yandex

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.83
Rank	#115	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	14.24
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#79	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

clickhouse.tech

riak.com/products/riak-kv

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

clickhouse.tech/docs

Developer

Amazon

Clickhouse Inc.

Basho Technologies

Initial release

2007

2016

2009

Current release

v23.1.3.5-stable, February 2023

2.1.0, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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, when using the MergeTree engine

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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
Scala

3rd party library

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript and Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

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

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

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

The popularity of cloud-based DBMSs has increased tenfold in four years
7 February 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market
3 August 2015, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Amazon DynamoDB Serves Trillions Of Requests Per Month While Counterpart SimpleDB Is No Longer A Listed Product On AWS
13 November 2013, TechCrunch

How to Install Adminer on Ubuntu - MUO
18 January 2023, MakeUseOf

NoSQL Basics: Features, Types, and Examples
18 October 2022, Spiceworks News and Insights

How to install Adminer on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
15 December 2022, linux.how2shout.com

Amazon Goes Back to the Future With 'NoSQL' Database
19 January 2012, WIRED

provided by Google News

ClickHouse, Inc. and Alibaba Cloud Announce a New Partnership
24 March 2023, Business Wire

Real-time Analytic Databases — Thing or Not a Thing?
17 March 2023, The New Stack

Apache Druid, TiDB, ClickHouse, or Apache Doris? A Comparison ...
28 March 2023, hackernoon.com

Taking Another Stab At Massively Parallel Data Analytics
20 March 2023, The Next Platform

The Future of Data is Real-Time
6 March 2023, Data Science Central

provided by Google News

NoSQL Databases and Their Use Cases
16 March 2023, KDnuggets

Is Riak A Good NoSQL Database Option?
1 July 2019, Analytics India Magazine

Basho, Maker of Riak NoSQL Database, Raises $25M
13 January 2015, Data Center Knowledge

8 Most Popular NoSQL Databases
25 November 2022, Analytics India Magazine

Riak NoSQL Database: Use Cases and Best Practices
23 December 2011, InfoQ.com

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

Ruby Developer
element^n, New York, NY

AWS Solution Architects for AWS Business Unit
VaaridaTech, Remote

DevOps Engineer II - ArcGIS Enterprise
ESRI, Inc., Remote

RedShift Database Engineer JD
GSB, Remote

Senior Data Architect
LinQuest Corporation, Beavercreek, OH

Big Data Engineer-Associate–Vice President
Deutsche Bank, Cary, NC

Backend Engineer
Sematext Group, Brooklyn, NY

Java Engineer (Mid-level)
Ad.net, Remote

Principal, Python & Database Developer
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, Boston, MA

Developer Advocate/Evangelist - Data Warehouse
TikTok, Mountain View, CA

Senior Big Data Engineer
JSR Tech Consulting, Newark, NJ

Senior Data Engineer
MOZ Group, Remote

Sr. Java Developer
Genoa Employment Solutions Inc, Ann Arbor, MI

Senior Java Developer (North or South America only)
Assessment Systems Corporation, Remote

Senior Data Engineer
SVTC IT, Newark, NJ

jobs by

Share this page