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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. DolphinDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. DolphinDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Pinecone

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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 ScioreDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.dolphindb.comwww.enterprisedb.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAmazonDolphinDB, IncEnterpriseDBPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2007201820052019
Current releasev2.00.4, January 202214, December 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community version availablecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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 infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infostandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or range
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Administrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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