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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series 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
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonCCRi and otherscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2007201420132011
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 automaticallyyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
depending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.depending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access controlno

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