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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Geode vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Geode vs. VoltDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embedded key-value store for Go.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score1.38
Rank#156  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgeode.apache.orgwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAmazonOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release2012201320022010
Current release1.1, February 201711.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (OQL)yes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsJava
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesyes, on a single nodeACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
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 signaturesnoAccess rights per client and object definableUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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