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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Cloudflare Workers KV

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Cloudflare Workers KV

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.64
Rank#135  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score79.30
Rank#15  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score18.77
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#274  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbclickhouse.comwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kv
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbclickhouse.com/­docsdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­api
DeveloperAmazonAmazonClickhouse Inc.Cloudflare
Initial release2012201220162018
Current releasev24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnoyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingkey based and custom
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.yes
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 systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

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