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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. Teradata Aster vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. Teradata Aster vs. Warp 10

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.citusdata.comwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.citusdata.comwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperAmazonTeradataSenX
Initial release20072016201020052015
Current release8.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonCJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
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 functionalityyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.R packagesyes infoWarpScript
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
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 applicationACIDACIDno
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.nonoyes
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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