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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TerarkDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 assetsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOracles in-memory data grid solutionA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeObject oriented DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#131  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comobjectbox.iowww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAmazonObjectBox LimitedOracleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20072016201720072016
Current release14.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesno
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 automaticallyyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonoyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoronline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes, with selectable consistency levelnone
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesyesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno
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