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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 multi-model DBMS and application serverFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial 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
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.intersystems.comdocs.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAmazonInterSystemsKineticaMonetDB BV
Initial release20072016199720122004
Current release2018.1.4, May 20207.1, August 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoACID
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.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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