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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embedded key-value store for Go.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeode.apache.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazonGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.SQream Technologies
Initial release20122013201220022017
Current release1.1, February 20172022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (OQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesyesyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 signaturesnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights per client and object definable

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