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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Ehcache vs. HBase vs. openGemini

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  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 widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeWide column storeTime Series DBMS
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
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.01
Rank#375  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.ehcache.orghbase.apache.orgwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.ehcache.org/­documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.opengemini.org/­guide
DeveloperAmazonTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHuawei and openGemini community
Initial release20072016200920082022
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.3.4, January 20211.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROInteger, Float, Boolean, String
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 automaticallynonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
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 applicationyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAdministrators and common users accounts

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