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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. BoltDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. BoltDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAn embedded key-value store for Go.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SQream Technologies
Initial release20122013201320102017
Current release4.1.0, June 20222022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++GoErlangC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 indexedyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGoC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosnoAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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