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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Drizzle vs. Machbase Neo vs. Newts vs. Quasardb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbmachbase.comopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbmachbase.com/­dbmsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAmazonDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMachbaseOpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release20072008201320142009
Current release7.2.4, September 2012V8.0, August 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
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 integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tablenoyes infoTransient mode
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, HTTPsimple password-based access controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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