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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Machbase Neo

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Name

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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

druid.apache.org

machbase.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Machbase

Initial release

2007

2012

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

selectable replication factor

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

simple password-based access control

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Recent citations in the news

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22 July 2009, AWS Blog

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Amazon Goes Back to the Future With 'NoSQL' Database
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