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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. Infobright

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  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 assetsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.md
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSoftmotionsIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release20072013201620122005
Current release4.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPLv2commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonCC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxserver-lessLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
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.noyes
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 Kerberosyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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