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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  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 ScioreAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.59
Rank#242  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.15
Rank#123  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbatoti.iowww.bigchaindb.comwww.citusdata.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.atoti.iobigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.citusdata.com
DeveloperAmazonActiveViam
Initial release200720162010
Current release8.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes
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
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)noyes infostandard, with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
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-standard

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