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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. StarRocks

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreWell established RDBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.starrocks.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperAmazonActian CorporationCirconus LLC.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release20071974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20172020
Current release11.2, May 2022V0.10.20, January 20182.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP APIJDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, in Luauser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres Replicatorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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