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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. WakandaDB vs. YTsaurus

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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

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.hawkular.org

wakanda.github.io

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Amazon

Community supported by Red Hat

Wakanda SAS

Yandex

Initial release

2007

2014

2012

2023

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License, 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

Java

C++, JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

SQL

Support of SQL

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Access Control Lists

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