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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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 DBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
opentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroichugegraph.apache.org/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonSpotifyBaiducurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20072016201420182011
Current release0.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 SQLnonononono
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
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
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 infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
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 datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesUsers, roles and permissionsno

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