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

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

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Name

Description

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

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.88
Rank	#139	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.39
Rank	#276	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

www.bigchaindb.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon

Kyligence, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2007

2016

2000

Current release

3.45.2 (12 March 2024), March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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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