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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. HBase vs. Qdrant

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  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 assetsFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeVector 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
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetQdrant
Initial release20072016198320082021
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaRust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRONumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infovia pluginsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
PHPC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Collection-level replication
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
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACKey-based authentication

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