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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Solr vs. BigchainDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Solr vs. BigchainDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Solr  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 widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.61
Rank#134  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score32.67
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.78
Rank#207  Overall
#34  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbsolr.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latest
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation
Initial release200720062016
Current release9.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaPython
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingno
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava plugins
Triggersnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
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 applicationoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB
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)yesyes

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