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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. IRONdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. IRONdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.postgres-xl.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazonCirconus LLC.SQream Technologies
Initial release2012201320172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2017
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 201810 R1, October 20182022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++CC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luauser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACID infoMVCCACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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