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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Realm

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  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 ScioreAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
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Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#253  Overall
#13  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbatoti.iowww.bigchaindb.combigobject.iorealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.atoti.iobigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.bigobject.iorealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonActiveViamBigObject, Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release2007201620152014
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaPython
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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 automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonLuano inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnonoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornonenone
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
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesnoyes

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