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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Prometheus vs. SAP HANA vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.bigchaindb.com

prometheus.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

prometheus.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Amazon

SAP

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2007

2016

2015

2010

2003

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

by Federation

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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