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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. Kinetica vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. Kinetica vs. TerarkDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 assetsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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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
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.kinetica.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBKineticaByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20072012201620122016
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20217.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++PythonC, C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesno
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 DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
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 algorithmShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnono
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 modeyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes (enterprise version only)yesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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