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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  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 assetsScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.38
Rank#279  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.combrytlyt.iowww.geomesa.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.brytlyt.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAmazonBrytlytCCRi and othersMicrosoft
Initial release20072016201620142015
Current release5.0, August 20234.0.5, February 2024V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++ and CUDAScala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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 infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
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#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layeryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnono
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.depending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infousing Azure authentication

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