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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  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 ScioreBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.aigithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAmazonquasardbOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release20072014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB200920152011
Current release10 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 20243.0.0, September 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++ErlangC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infointeger and binarynoyes 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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infowith tagsrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query languageyes, limitedno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoErlangno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACID infoMVCCACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnono

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