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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. HarperDB vs. InterSystems IRIS

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  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 assetsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.harperdb.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iris
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.cls
DeveloperAmazonSoftmotionsHarperDBInterSystems
Initial release20072016201220172018
Current release3.1, August 20212023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPLv2commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonCNode.js
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-lessLinux
OS X
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freedynamic schemadepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes infoJSON data typesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like data manipulation statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornoneyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSource-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 integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes
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