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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. Brytlyt vs. HarperDB vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. Brytlyt vs. HarperDB vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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 graphScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
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
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.combrytlyt.iowww.harperdb.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.comdocs.brytlyt.iodocs.harperdb.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBBrytlytHarperDBIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20072012201620172010
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20215.0, August 20233.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++C, C++ and CUDANode.jsErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesdynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes infoJSON data typesno
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLCustom Functions infosince release 3.1View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnoyes
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 algorithmA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes, using LMDByes
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 modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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