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

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

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  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 ScioreBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDolphinDB 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 storeDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.combigobject.iowww.dolphindb.comgalaxybase.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.bigobject.iodocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.DolphinDB, IncChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司
Initial release20072016201520182017
Current releasev2.00.4, January 2022Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infofree community version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C and Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesStrong typed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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 automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
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
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Go
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayesuser defined procedures and functions
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornoneyes
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
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesnoAdministrators, Users, GroupsRole-based access control

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