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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. OushuDB vs. PouchDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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 data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
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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
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.oushu.com/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAmazonDGraph LabsOushuApache Software Foundation
Initial release2007201720162012
Current release4.0.1, August 20207.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
GoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingyesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
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)noyesKerberos, SSL and role based accessno

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