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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hyprcubd

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hyprcubd

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 assetsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Serverless Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comgeospock.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorehyprcubd.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperAmazonGeoSpockGoogleHyprcubd, Inc.
Initial release200720162017
Current release2.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesyes
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Implementation languagePythonJava, JavascriptGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, 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 automaticallytemporal, categoricalyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsno
Triggersnonoyes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual 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 applicationnoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.token access

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