DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Memgraph vs. MySQL vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Memgraph vs. MySQL vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Widely used open source RDBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

memgraph.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

rethinkdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2007

2016

2017

1995

2009

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

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