DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. H2 vs. NCache vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. H2 vs. NCache vs. SAP HANA

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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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.bigchaindb.com

www.h2database.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

Thomas Mueller

Alachisoft

SAP

Initial release

2007

2016

2005

2010

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

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

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

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