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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Galaxybase

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BaseX vs. BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Galaxybase

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  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 ScioreLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform
Primary database modelKey-value storeNative XML DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbasex.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.dolphindb.comgalaxybase.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.basex.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonBaseX GmbHDolphinDB, IncChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司
Initial release20072007201620182017
Current release11.0, June 2024v2.00.4, January 2022Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++C and Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesStrong typed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyes
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 automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Go
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesuser defined procedures and functions
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationmultiple readers, single writeryesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesAdministrators, Users, GroupsRole-based access control

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