DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#344	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

rocksdb.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Facebook, Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2012

2013

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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 search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

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

yes

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