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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. mSQL vs. Netezza vs. Rockset

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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 assetsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzarockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAmazonHughes TechnologiesIBMRockset
Initial release20072016199420002019
Current release4.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux infoincluded in appliancehosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual 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 applicationnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
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)yesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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