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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. SQream DB vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 ScioreScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBasea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbopentsdb.netsqream.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazoncurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSQream TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release2007201120172011
Current release2022.1.6, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenonenone
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 Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono

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