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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB vs. searchxml

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embedded key-value store for Go.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAmazonKineticaMonetDB BVinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20122013201220042015
Current release7.1, August 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC, C++CC++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesGoC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, Ryes infoon the application server
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACIDmultiple readers, single writer
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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