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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BaseX vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. openGemini

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BaseX vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. openGemini

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  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.Cloud 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.An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability
Primary database modelKey-value storeNative XML DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score6.63
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbasex.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.basex.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.opengemini.org/­guide
DeveloperAmazonBaseX GmbHGoogleHuawei and openGemini community
Initial release2007200720172022
Current release11.2, August 20241.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infoXQuery supports typesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, String
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
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
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replicationyes
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
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationmultiple readers, single writeryesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
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 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Administrators and common users accounts

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