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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Bangdb vs. Blueflood vs. CouchDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Bangdb vs. Blueflood vs. CouchDB vs. ToroDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbangdb.comblueflood.iocouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bangdb.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stable
DeveloperAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer8Kdata
Initial release20122012201320052016
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexedyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes (enterprise version only)noAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles

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