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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. CouchDB vs. Cubrid vs. Heroic

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

couchdb.apache.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

cubrid.org/manuals

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Spotify

Initial release

2012

2005

2008

2014

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

11.0, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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