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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. etcd vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Newts

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA distributed reliable key-value storeDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeDocument storeTime 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
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigobject.ioetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bigobject.ioetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
cloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OpenNMS Group
Initial release2012201520102014
Current release3.4, August 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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 indexedyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyes, watching key changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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