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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. SWC-DB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#387  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchphoenix.apache.orgspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationSpotifyAlex Kashirin
Initial release20122014201320142020
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20190.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
GoC++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyno

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