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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Derby vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Derby vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  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 assetsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comdb.apache.org/­derbymanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationManticore SoftwareMicrosoft
Initial release20072016199720172016
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20236.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.noyesCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsTransact SQL
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes
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 integritynonoyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
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-standardnoyes

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