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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. RRDtool vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

Tobias Oetiker

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

Transwarp

Initial release

2007

1999

2012

2018

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Journaling Streams

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

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple authentication-based access control

Role-based access control

yes

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