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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. JSqlDb vs. OpenMLDB vs. PouchDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 assetsJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inferenceJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.02
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comjsqldb.org (offline)openmldb.aipouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­mainpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAmazonKonrad von Backstrom4 Paradigm Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20072016201820202012
Current release0.8, December 20182024-2 February 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++, Java, ScalaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyesno
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 automaticallynoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
SQLAlchemy
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnofunctions in JavaScriptnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing RocksDByesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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