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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SQL.JS

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 graphCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoresql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoresql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBGoogleAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2007201220172012
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes, with Cloud Functionsno
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 algorithmShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
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
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.no

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