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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. IRONdb vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. IRONdb vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 simplicityKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAmazonCirconus LLC.STS Soft SC
Initial release2012201320172011
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20184.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C#
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexednonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luano
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
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 methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnonono

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