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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. ArcadeDB vs. Bangdb vs. NuoDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  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 ScioreAnalytic DBMS for HadoopFast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#358  Overall
#48  Document stores
#38  Graph DBMS
#52  Key-value stores
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orgarcadedb.combangdb.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.arcadedb.comdocs.bangdb.comdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaArcade DataSachin Sinha, BangDBDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20072013202120122013
Current release4.1.0, June 2022September 2021BangDB 2.0, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL like support with command line toolyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoJava, SQL
Triggersnonoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationship in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes (enterprise version only)Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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