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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SQL.JS

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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.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Spotify

Microsoft

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2010

2012

Current release

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

no

no

yes

no

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Go

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

no

yes

yes

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.

no

no

yes

no

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

no

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

no

no

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

no

no

Transact SQL

no

Triggers

no

no

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

yes

no

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

no

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

no

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

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