DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Cassandra vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Cassandra vs. GeoMesa

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
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Score	0.38
Rank	#279	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.brytlyt.io

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Brytlyt

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

CCRi and others

Initial release

2007

2016

2008

2014

Current release

5.0, August 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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