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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. Ultipa vs. VoltDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 assetsHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deploymentDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.ultipa.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.ultipa.com/­documentdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBUltipaVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20072012201620192010
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202111.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++PythonJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyes
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, geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)no
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
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica 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 accordingly
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infoSnapshots and command logging
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 mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes (enterprise version only)yesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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