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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. Rockset

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 HBaseLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Trend Chart
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
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgbasex.orgwww.bigchaindb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbphoenix.apache.orgdocs.basex.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationBaseX GmbHRockset
Initial release20072014200720162019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201911.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaPythonC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno infoXQuery supports typesnodynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnonoyes infovia eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
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 applicationACIDmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
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-tenancyUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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