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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Drizzle vs. ITTIA vs. KairosDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.36
Rank	#272	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.ittia.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

ITTIA L.L.C.

Initial release

2007

2008

2007

2013

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

8.7

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Database file passwords

simple password-based access control

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