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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. BigchainDB vs. Couchbase

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Name

Description

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

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.bigchaindb.com

www.couchbase.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.couchbase.com

Developer

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

Couchbase, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2018

2016

2011

Current release

2.3, January 2021

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

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

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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