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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RRDtool vs. Sequoiadb vs. TigerGraph

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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 ScioreA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sequoiadb.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledboss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAmazonMicrosoftTobias OetikerSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20072012199920132017
Current release1.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedHP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
proprietary protocol using JSONGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJavaScriptyes
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationoptimistic lockingnoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesnosimple password-based access controlRole-based access control

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