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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  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 assetsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroichugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAmazonSpotifyBaiduIBM
Initial release20072016201420182017
Current release0.92.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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