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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. Cassandra vs. EJDB vs. HBase

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeWide column storeDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.bigchaindb.comcassandra.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbhbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdhbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookSoftmotionsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20122016200820122008
Current release4.1.3, July 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaCJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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 indexedrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
in-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC
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Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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