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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. RDFox vs. Realm vs. Sphinx

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 assetsHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techrealm.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.oxfordsemantic.techrealm.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonOxford Semantic TechnologiesRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20072016201720142001
Current release6.0, Septermber 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
Java
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnoyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorreplication via a shared file systemnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesRoles, resources, and access typesyesno

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