DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Badger vs. GBase vs. NuoDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Badger vs. GBase vs. NuoDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.gbase.cn

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

doc.nuodb.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

DGraph Labs

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2004

2013

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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