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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. DuckDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. DuckDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  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 assetsA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
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
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
duckdb.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtable
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsduckdb.org/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
DeveloperAmazonDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGoogle
Initial release20072016202320182015
Current release1.0, March 20230.10, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxserver-lesshosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freescheme-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesno
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 automaticallynoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanono
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDAtomic single-row operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesPassword-based authenticationnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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