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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. MarkLogic vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. MarkLogic vs. VoltDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 PostgreSQLOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#288  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.combrytlyt.iowww.marklogic.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.brytlyt.iodocs.marklogic.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAmazonBrytlytMarkLogic Corp.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release20072016201620012010
Current release5.0, August 202311.0, December 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++ and CUDAC++Java, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes
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.yes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infoSQL92yes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptJava
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, with Range Indexes
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-standardRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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