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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. BigchainDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. OpenEdge

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted 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 StorageBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.40
Rank#269  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisewww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationKyligence, Inc.Progress Software Corporation
Initial release20072012201620161984
Current release1.20.3, January 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Depending on the underlying data sourceyesUsers and groups

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