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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. CockroachDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. CockroachDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Prometheus

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
prometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docsprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonCockroach LabsBaidu
Initial release2007201520182015
Current release24.1.0, May 20240.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric 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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersnononono
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 RAFTyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using RAFTyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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)Role-based access controlUsers, roles and permissionsno

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