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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ultipa

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#338  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchblueflood.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Ultipa
Initial release2012201320102019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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 indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes
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 CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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