DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BoltDB vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

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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.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

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

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Amazon

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2000

2020

2010

Current release

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

0.5, April 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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