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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB vs. Splice Machine

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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 ScioreDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantkairosdb.github.iosplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Splice Machine
Initial release2007201020132014
Current release1.2.2, November 20183.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes infoJava
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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