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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Ingres

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  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 assetsAn embedded key-value store for Go.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperAmazonGoogleActian Corporation
Initial release20072016201320081974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release11.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonGoC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes, details hereyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (GQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonousing Google App Engineyes
TriggersnonoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication using PaxosIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationyesACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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