DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. NuoDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Prometheus vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. NuoDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Prometheus vs. SiteWhere

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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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

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Score	8.42
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Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

prometheus.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

doc.nuodb.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

prometheus.io/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

SiteWhere

Initial release

2007

2013

2021

2015

2010

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

by Federation

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

none

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

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

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

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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