DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Prometheus vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Prometheus vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cloud.google.com/bigquery

prometheus.io

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

prometheus.io/docs

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Amazon

Google

Tencent

Transwarp

Initial release

2007

2010

2015

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

none

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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