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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Bangdb vs. BigchainDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  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 ScioreA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgbangdb.comwww.bigchaindb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgdocs.bangdb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latest
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDB
Initial release2007201420122016
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019BangDB 2.0, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL v3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++Python
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsno
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 automaticallyyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL like support with command line toolno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
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
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)
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 algorithmSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable 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 ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only mode
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-tenancyyes (enterprise version only)yes

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