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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. BigchainDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. BigchainDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Native XML DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorybasex.orgwww.bigchaindb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgdocs.basex.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latest
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationAtos Convergence CreatorsBaseX GmbH
Initial release20072014201620072016
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019170311.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaPython
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalno infoXQuery supports typesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCLDAPJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages with LDAP bindingsActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyesyes infovia events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infocell divisionnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
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 applicationACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyLDAP bind authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes

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