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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. STSdb vs. Transbase

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Name	Amazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparison	OpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison	STSdb  Xexclude from comparison	Transbase  Xexclude from comparison
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	Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase	Key-Value Store with special method for indexing optimized for high performance using a special indexing method	A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database model	Key-value store	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.09 Rank #123   Overall #24   Key-value stores	Score 1.96 Rank #124   Overall #8   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.00 Rank #356   Overall #57   Key-value stores	Score 0.06 Rank #330   Overall #147   Relational DBMS
Website	aws.amazon.com/­simpledb	opentsdb.net	github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4	www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentation	docs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledb	opentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html		www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developer	Amazon	currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors	STS Soft SC	Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release	2007	2011	2011	1987
Current release			4.0.8, September 2015	Transbase 8.4, September 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source LGPL	Open Source GPLv2, commercial license available	commercial free development license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	C#	C and C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux Windows	Windows	FreeBSD Linux macOS Solaris Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	numeric data for metrics, strings for tags	yes primitive types and user defined types (classes)	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.		no		no
Secondary indexes	yes All columns are indexed automatically	no	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	RESTful HTTP API	HTTP API Telnet API	.NET Client API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ Erlang Java PHP Python Ruby Scala	Erlang Go Java Python R Ruby	C# Java	C C# C++ Java JavaScript Kotlin Objective-C PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	no	yes
Triggers	no	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none Sharding must be implemented in the application	Sharding based on HBase	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	selectable replication factor based on HBase	none	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency can be specified for read operations	Immediate Consistency based on HBase		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application	no	no	yes
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		no		no
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)	no	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DB-Engines blog posts	The popularity of cloud-based DBMSs has increased tenfold in four years 7 February 2017, Matthias Gelbmann Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market 3 August 2015, Matthias Gelbmann show all	Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity 4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann show all