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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

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Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

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

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Amazon

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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