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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Citus vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Citus vs. OrigoDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.citusdata.comorigodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.citusdata.comorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonRobert Friberg et al
Initial release2012201320102009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release8.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoCC#
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes
Triggersnonoyesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
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 signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorization

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