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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. QuestDB vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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 multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlquestdb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4wakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAmazonOracleQuestDB Technology IncSTS Soft SCWakanda SAS
Initial release20072011201420112012
Current release23.3, December 20234.0.8, September 20152.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL with time-series extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 applicationconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID for single-table writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infooff heap cacheyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesnoyes
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Amazon SimpleDBOracle NoSQLQuestDBSTSdbWakandaDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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