DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. CouchDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. CouchDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Trend Chart

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

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

couchdb.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Google

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2007

2005

2010

2015

2012

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

atomic operations within a single document possible

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

rights management via user accounts

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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