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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Pinecone vs. VoltDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Pinecone vs. VoltDB vs. YTsaurus

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  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 assetsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memoryYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
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Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#340  Overall
#45  Document stores
#50  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.pinecone.iowww.voltdb.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.voltdb.comytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperAmazonPinecone Systems, IncVoltDB Inc.Yandex
Initial release20072016201920102023
Current release11.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro EditionsOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
OS X infofor development
Ubuntu
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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 automaticallyyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
PythonC#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored proceduresACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoSnapshots and command loggingyes
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)yesUsers and roles with access to stored proceduresAccess Control Lists

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