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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. BigObject vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. BigObject vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­documentdbbigobject.iowww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.bigobject.iowww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2012201920152013
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLuaJavaScript
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsnoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and rolesnosimple password-based access control

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