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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. PlanetScale vs. Realm vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. PlanetScale vs. Realm vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  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 assetsScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#192  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.complanetscale.comrealm.iowww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestplanetscale.com/­docsrealm.io/­docswww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperAmazonPlanetScaleRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Tencent
Initial release20072016202020142013
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
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Implementation languagePythonGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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 automaticallyyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes
Triggersnoyesyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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 across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACID at shard levelACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.yesyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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