DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. Google BigQuery vs. Ignite

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. Google BigQuery vs. Ignite

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

ignite.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

Amazon

BigObject, Inc.

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2015

2010

2015

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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