DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Cassandra vs. BigchainDB vs. Manticore Search vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Cassandra vs. BigchainDB vs. Manticore Search vs. TimesTen

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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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cassandra.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Manticore Software

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2007

2008

2016

2017

1998

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

6.0, February 2023

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

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

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

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"

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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