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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SQream DB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SQream DB vs. TempoIQ

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be 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 assetsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Servera GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticssqream.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazonMicrosoftSQream TechnologiesTempoIQ
Initial release20072016201620172012
Current release2022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
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Implementation languagePythonC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLuser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnononoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryesnone
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDno
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesyessimple authentication-based access control

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