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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Well established RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational 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
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.hawkular.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperAmazonDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCommunity supported by Red HatActian Corporation
Initial release2007200820141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release7.2.4, September 201211.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCHTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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