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

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

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgeospock.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAmazonGeoSpockSpotifyObjectBox Limited
Initial release2012201320142017
Current release2.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoJava, JavascriptJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
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 indexednotemporal, categoricalyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneAutomatic shardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyesonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnonoACID
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes
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