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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Databricks vs. DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.databricks.comwww.dolphindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.databricks.comdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAmazonDatabricksDolphinDB, IncIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2012201320182010
Current releasev2.00.4, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree community version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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