DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TimesTen

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Name

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

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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#296	Overall
	#134	Relational DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.bigchaindb.com

www.featurebase.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.featurebase.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Microsoft

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2007

2016

2017

1989

1998

Current release

2022, May 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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