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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. openGemini vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. openGemini vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 ScioreData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.opengemini.org/­guide
DeveloperAmazonChris DavisMicrosoftHuawei and openGemini communitySTS Soft SC
Initial release20072006201620222011
Current release1.1, July 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC++GoC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
hostedLinux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 automaticallynoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLnono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyesAdministrators and common users accountsno

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