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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. MarkLogic vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  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 ScioreData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmachbase.comwww.marklogic.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgraphite.readthedocs.iomachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.marklogic.comdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonChris DavisMachbaseMarkLogic Corp.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20072006201320011994
Current releaseV8.0, August 202311.0, December 202218.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyesno
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.nonoyesyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL92yes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tableyes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nosimple password-based access controlRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsno

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