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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Riak KV vs. SQream DB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. Riak KV vs. SQream DB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embedded key-value store for Go.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
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
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltsqream.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.sqream.comdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperAmazonOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSQream TechnologiesYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20122013200920172017
Current release3.2.0, December 20222022.1.6, December 20222.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednorestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesGoC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlanguser defined functions in Pythonyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal and vertical partitioningHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneselectable replication factornoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
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 signaturesnoyes, using Riak Securityyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon CloudSearchBoltDBRiak KVSQream DBYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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