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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. XTDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.gbase.cnhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2012200420082019
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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