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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. GridGain vs. Realm vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. GridGain vs. Realm vs. SQL.JS

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 assetsGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.gridgain.comrealm.iosql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonGridGain Systems, Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20072016200720142012
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, C++, .NetJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryes (replicated cache)nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesno

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