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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Bangdb vs. BigchainDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.orgbangdb.comwww.bigchaindb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.bangdb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latest
DeveloperAmazonAmazonApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDB
Initial release20122007201220122016
Current release1.20.3, January 2023BangDB 2.0, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL v3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++Python
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsno
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 search fields are automatically indexedyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL like support with command line toolno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes, run db with in-memory only mode
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Depending on the underlying data sourceyes (enterprise version only)yes

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