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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  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 ScioreConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
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
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#288  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.comwww.bigchaindb.combrytlyt.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.brytlyt.io
DeveloperAmazonAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBBrytlyt
Initial release20122007201220162016
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20215.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++PythonC, C++ and CUDA
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL like support with command line toolnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQL
Triggersnonoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding (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 factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, 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)yes (enterprise version only)yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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