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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. TimesTen

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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 assetsRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAmazonOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologiesinformationpartners gmbhOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20072016201520151998
Current release3.0.0, September 20221.011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
WindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, limitednoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangyes infoon the application serverPL/SQL
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between datasets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnomultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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