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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Galaxybase vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Galaxybase vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgalaxybase.comgeospock.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAmazonChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司GeoSpockSpotify
Initial release2012201320172014
Current releaseNov 20, November 20212.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC and JavaJava, JavascriptJava
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeStrong typed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyestemporal, categoricalyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined procedures and functionsnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnono
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per table

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