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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. dBASE vs. Dolt vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. KairosDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons clouddBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score11.18
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.95
Rank#197  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
cloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.dolthub.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docskairosdb.github.io
DeveloperAmazonAsthon TateDoltHub IncGoogle
Initial release20121979201820152013
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20191.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoJava
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.CLI Client
HTTP REST
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes infocurrently in alpha releasenono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDAtomic single-row operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and rolesOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple password-based access control

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