DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. ClickHouse vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. ClickHouse vs. MaxDB

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Name

Description

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

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 and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/boltdb/bolt

clickhouse.com

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

clickhouse.com/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Clickhouse Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2012

2013

2016

1984

Current release

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

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
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

none

key based and custom

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

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

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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