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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. GigaSpaces vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. GigaSpaces vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Multivalue DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#197  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.datomic.comwww.gigaspaces.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaserocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.datomic.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9github.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonCognitectGigaspaces TechnologiesRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20122012200019912013
Current release1.0.7180, July 202415.5, September 20205.79.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava, C++, .NetC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalno
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyesyesno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoRole-based access controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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