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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. IRONdb vs. Kyligence Enterprise

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. IRONdb vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/kyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprise
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAmazonDragonflyDB team and community contributorsCirconus LLC.Kyligence, Inc.
Initial release20122016202320172016
Current release1.0, March 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayes, in Lua
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesPassword-based authenticationno

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