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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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 assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.39
Rank#155  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iowww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAmazonDgraph Labs, Inc.Esgyn
Initial release20072016201620152014
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC++, JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesno
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 automaticallyyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored ProceduresView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
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 integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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