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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. Brytlyt vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. Brytlyt vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigobject.iobrytlyt.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bigobject.iodocs.brytlyt.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.BrytlytIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2012201520162010
Current release5.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuauser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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