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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. BigchainDB vs. FatDB vs. Machbase Neo

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

atoti.io

www.bigchaindb.com

machbase.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.atoti.io

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Amazon

ActiveViam

FatCloud

Machbase

Initial release

2007

2016

2012

2013

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

Can implement custom security layer via applications

simple password-based access control

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