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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigObject vs. FatDB vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigObject vs. FatDB vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigobject.iogreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.FatCloudPivotal Software Inc.
Initial release20072015201220052014
Current release7.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC#JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
WindowsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayes infovia applicationsyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infovia applicationsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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