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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Elasticsearch

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Elasticsearch

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  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 HadoopBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearch
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaCloudflareElastic
Initial release20072013201620182010
Current release4.1.0, June 20228.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoElastic License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++PythonJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonoyes
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 automaticallyyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes
Triggersnononoyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoMemcached and Redis integration
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

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