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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Drizzle vs. GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Drizzle vs. GridDB vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgriddb.netwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.griddb.netcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAmazonDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerToshiba CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2012200820132010
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampno
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
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID at container levelno 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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