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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. RRDtool vs. WakandaDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

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.

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

wakanda.github.io

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

wakanda.github.io/doc

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Amazon

Tobias Oetiker

Wakanda SAS

Yandex

Initial release

2007

1999

2012

2023

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

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

C++, JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

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

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

RESTful HTTP API

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

JavaScript

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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 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)

yes

Access Control Lists

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