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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database 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 graph
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score72.39
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score1.74
Rank#134  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#48  Document stores
#36  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.com
DeveloperAmazonAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDB
Initial release201220072012
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL like support with command line tool
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well
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 controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes (enterprise version only)

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