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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. BigchainDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.88
Rank#139  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#276  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.bigchaindb.comwww.jaguardb.comkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprise
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperAmazonAmazonDataJaguar, Inc.Kyligence, Inc.
Initial release20122007201620152016
Current release3.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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 indexedyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yesrights management via user accounts

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