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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. SiteWhere vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. SiteWhere vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 assetsCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheretinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcubrid.org/­manualssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationSiteWhere
Initial release20072016200820102009
Current release11.0, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++, JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined schemeschema-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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesoptional
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-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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