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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSWide column storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.cockroachlabs.comgalaxybase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAmazonCockroach LabsChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Hypertable Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20072015201720092010
Current release24.1.0, May 2024Nov 20, November 20210.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageGoC and JavaC++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hosted
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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 automaticallyyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Go
Java
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined procedures and functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access controlRole-based access controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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