DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hypertable vs. OpenSearch vs. TimescaleDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hypertable vs. OpenSearch vs. TimescaleDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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 BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.timescale.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.timescale.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon

Hypertable Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Timescale

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2007

2009

2021

2017

2011

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.5.0, January 2023

2.13.0, November 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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Typical application scenarios

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