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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. DataFS vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. DataFS vs. Kinetica

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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
Score0.09
Rank#360  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigobject.ionewdatabase.comwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bigobject.iodev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.Mobiland AGKinetica
Initial release2012201520182012
Current release1.1.263, October 20227.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuauser defined functions
Triggersnonono, except callback-events from server when changes happenedyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneProprietary Sharding systemSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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.yesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoWindows-ProfileAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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