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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.31
Rank#159  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchiotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2012201820142010
Current release1.1.0, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlang
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
Native API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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