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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Linter

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Linter

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 graphA multi-model DBMS and application serverRDBMS for high security requirements
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument storeSpatial 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
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachelinter.ru
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.comdocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBInterSystemsrelex.ru
Initial release2007201219971990
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyes
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 algorithmnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationSource-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 accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
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 controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
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 rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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