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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. OpenQM vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. OpenQM vs. searchxml

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAmazonRocket Software, originally Martin Phillipsinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20072016201319932015
Current release3.4-121.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornoneyesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationyesACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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