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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Informix

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchblueflood.iowww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.ibm.com/­products/­informix
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceCloudflareIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.
Initial release2012201320181984
Current release14.10.FC5, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC, C++ and Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP RESTHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

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