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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Hazelcast vs. NSDb vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.A widely adopted in-memory data gridScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.cockroachlabs.comhazelcast.comnsdb.iowww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAmazonCockroach LabsHazelcastSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20072015200820172006
Current release24.1.0, May 20245.3.6, November 20238.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnono
Triggersnonoyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using RAFTyes infoReplicated Mapnone
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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