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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. BigchainDB vs. KairosDB vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. BigchainDB vs. KairosDB vs. OrientDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  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 ScioreAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbiotdb.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdborientdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestkairosdb.github.iowww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20072018201620132010
Current release1.1.0, April 20231.2.2, November 20183.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoJava, Javascript
TriggersnoyesnoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)ShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknonono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes inforelationship in graphs
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 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesyessimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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