DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.bigchaindb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2016

2010

2013

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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