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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  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 assetsWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Cloud-based data warehousing service
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.bigchaindb.comwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouse
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latest
DeveloperAmazonGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBM
Initial release2012201620042014
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC, Java, Python
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.noyesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsPL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factoryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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