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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Hazelcast vs. TerminusDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 ScioreAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA widely adopted in-memory data gridScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comhazelcast.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAmazonDGraph LabsHazelcastDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20072017201620082018
Current release5.3.6, November 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyesyes
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
GoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes
Triggersnonoyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factoryes infoReplicated MapJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyesRole-based access controlRole-based access control

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