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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Speedb vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Speedb vs. VelocityDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 assetsOracles in-memory data grid solutionAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.speedb.iovelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencevelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAmazonOracleSpeedbVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20072016200720202011
Current release14.1, August 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes
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 automaticallynonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnoyes infoLive EventsCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryes, with selectable consistency levelyes
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
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate 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 applicationconfigurableyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnoBased on Windows Authentication
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Amazon SimpleDBBigchainDBOracle CoherenceSpeedbVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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