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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. Quasardb vs. TimesTen

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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 assetsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.comwww.bigchaindb.comquasar.aiwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBquasardbOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20072012201620091998
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.14.1, January 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++PythonC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyes infointeger and binaryyes
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, geospatialyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoPL/SQL
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nono
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 algorithmShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
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 depending on configuration
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 applicationACIDACIDACID
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 RethinkDByes infoby using LevelDByes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
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 infoTransient 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)yesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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