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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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 durabilityDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA 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 storeMultivalue DBMSKey-value store
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
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.datomic.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaserocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.datomic.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9github.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonCognitectIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20122012201019912013
Current release1.0.7180, July 20245.79.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnooptionalno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesyes
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
Source-replica replication
yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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 developmentnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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