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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Bangdb vs. Kdb vs. Oracle NoSQL

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparison
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 graphHigh performance Time Series DBMSA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbangdb.comkx.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosql
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bangdb.comcode.kx.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOracle
Initial release201220122000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032011
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20213.6, May 201823.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++qJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesoptional
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infowith viewsno
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 algorithmhorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingwith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
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 modeyesyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes (enterprise version only)rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles
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Amazon CloudSearchBangdbKdbOracle NoSQL
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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