DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Derby vs. DolphinDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Derby vs. DolphinDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

db.apache.org/derby

www.dolphindb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

Google

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2012

1997

2018

2010

2005

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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