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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. atoti vs. BigchainDB

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#355	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.59
Rank	#242	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

arcadedb.com

atoti.io

www.bigchaindb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.atoti.io

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

Developer

Amazon

Arcade Data

ActiveViam

Initial release

2007

2021

2016

Current release

September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

AGPL v3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

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Recent citations in the news

New SimpleDB Goodies: Enhanced Select, Larger Result Sets, Mandatory HTTPS | Amazon Web Services
20 May 2009, AWS Blog

Hands-on Tutorial for Getting Started with Amazon SimpleDB
28 May 2010, Packt Hub

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12 November 2013, TechCrunch

Amazon SimpleDB Management in Eclipse | AWS News Blog
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