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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. HBase vs. VoltDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
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
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchblueflood.iohbase.apache.orgwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikihbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2012201320082010
Current release2.3.4, January 202111.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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 infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in JavaJava
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
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 signaturesnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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