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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. HugeGraph vs. Ultipa vs. VoltDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 assetsA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deploymentDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ultipa.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.ultipa.com/­documentdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAmazonBaiduUltipaVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20072016201820192010
Current release0.911.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsJava
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesUsers, roles and permissionsUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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