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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. BigchainDB vs. HugeGraph

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

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  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 assetsA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
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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
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbpinot.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.pinot.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsBaidu
Initial release2007201520162018
Current release1.0.0, September 20230.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
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
macOS
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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 automaticallyyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioningShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACID
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)yesUsers, roles and permissions

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