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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. BigchainDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

bangdb.com

www.bigchaindb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.bangdb.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Initial release

2012

2007

2012

2016

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

AGPL v3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

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

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

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 (enterprise version only)

yes

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