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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. BaseX vs. Geode

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  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 ScioreConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Native XML DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.combasex.orggeode.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.comdocs.basex.orggeode.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBBaseX GmbHOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.
Initial release2007201220072002
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202111.2, August 20241.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also required
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsno infoXQuery supports typesyes
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 infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL-like query language (OQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infovia eventsyes infoCache Event Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual 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 applicationACIDmultiple readers, single writeryes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes (enterprise version only)Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights per client and object definable

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