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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. XTDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comwww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonDGraph LabsGigaspaces TechnologiesJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20122017201620002019
Current release15.5, September 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJava, C++, .NetClojure
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-99 for query and DML statementslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoyesRole-based access control

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