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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. BigchainDB vs. HBase

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  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 ScioreRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbpinot.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comhbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.pinot.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2007201520162008
Current release1.0.0, September 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnooptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,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)yesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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