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

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Wide column 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
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.dbase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docskairosdb.github.io
DeveloperAmazonAsthon TateGoogleHypertable Inc.
Initial release20121979201520092013
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20190.9.8.11, March 20161.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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 indexedyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
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)
C++ API
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingShardingSharding 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 zonesselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
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 operationsnono
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 rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nosimple password-based access control

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