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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. OpenQM

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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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

greptime.com

machbase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.greptime.com

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Amazon

Greptime Inc.

Machbase

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2007

2022

2013

1993

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

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

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

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

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

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

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.

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)

Simple rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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