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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. InfinityDB vs. NSDb vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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 Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comboilerbay.comnsdb.iowww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAmazonBoiler Bay Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20072016200220172013
Current release4.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 automaticallyno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaJava
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJavaScript
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesnosimple password-based access control

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