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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Ingres vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Ingres vs. VoltDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  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 assetsCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Well established RDBMSDistributed 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 DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.cockroachlabs.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAmazonCockroach LabsActian CorporationVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2007201620151974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2010
Current release24.1.0, May 202411.2, May 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen 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 languagePythonGoCJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedynamic schemayesyes
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
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
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJava
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFThorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using RAFTIngres ReplicatorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 integritynonoyesyesno 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 applicationACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes 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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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