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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tkrzw

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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 Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
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
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comjanusgraph.orgwww.sequoiadb.comdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.janusgraph.orgwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAmazonLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusSequoiadb Ltd.Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20072016201720132020
Current release0.6.3, February 20230.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexno
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 automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serversimple password-based access controlno

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