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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. GBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NSDb

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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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.gbase.cn

www.hawkular.org

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Amazon

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Community supported by Red Hat

Initial release

2007

2004

2014

2017

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

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Recent citations in the news

New SimpleDB Goodies: Enhanced Select, Larger Result Sets, Mandatory HTTPS | Amazon Web Services
20 May 2009, AWS Blog

Hands-on Tutorial for Getting Started with Amazon SimpleDB
28 May 2010, Packt Hub

Amazon DynamoDB Serves Trillions Of Requests Per Month While Counterpart SimpleDB Is No Longer A Listed Product On AWS
12 November 2013, TechCrunch

Amazon SimpleDB Management in Eclipse | AWS News Blog
22 July 2009, AWS Blog

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