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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. Kinetica vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 graphFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.comwww.kinetica.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.comdocs.kinetica.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBKineticaTransaction Software GmbHVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20072012201219872011
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20217.1, August 2021Transbase 8.3, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C, C++C and C++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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, geospatialyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
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)Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
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 infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
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 and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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