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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. HBase

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  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 graphBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.dolphindb.comhbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBDolphinDB, IncApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20072012201620182008
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021v2.00.4, January 20222.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++PythonC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes
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 algorithmShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDyesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
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 modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes (enterprise version only)yesAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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