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

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  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.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Document storeTime Series DBMS
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
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.55
Rank#252  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.dbase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.harperdb.io/­docskairosdb.github.io
DeveloperAmazonAsthon TateGoogleHarperDB
Initial release20121979201520172013
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20193.1, August 20211.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageNode.jsJava
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freedynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoJSON data typesyes
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 indexedyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APInone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
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 DBMSAtomic single-row operationsAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolessimple password-based access control

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