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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Brytlyt vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Brytlyt vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.29
Rank#288  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbrytlyt.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.brytlyt.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperAmazonBrytlytGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM
Initial release20122016201220121983 infohost version
Current release5.0, August 20233.1.3, April 202212.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLlimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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