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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. HBase vs. OrigoDB vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 assetsWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeWide column storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value store
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
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comhbase.apache.orgorigodb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthbase.apache.org/­book.htmlorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetRobert Friberg et alSTS Soft SC
Initial release2007201620082009 infounder the name LiveDB2011
Current release2.3.4, January 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC#C#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonooptions to bring your own types, AVROUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.NetC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesno
Triggersnoyesyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
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)yesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACRole based authorizationno

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