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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigObject vs. InfluxDB vs. Riak KV vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  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 ScioreAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#361  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigobject.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bigobject.iodocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTranswarp
Initial release2007201520132009
Current release2.7.6, April 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data and Stringsnoyes
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 automaticallyyesnorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoErlang
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nosimple rights management via user accountsyes, using Riak Security
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