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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. ClickHouse vs. jBASE

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

blueflood.io

clickhouse.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Amazon

Rackspace

Clickhouse Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Initial release

2012

2013

2016

1991

Current release

v24.3.2.23-lts, April 2024

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

based on Cassandra

key based and custom

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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