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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store
Wide column store
Document storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
#16  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperAmazonGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release2012201520102015
Current release3.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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 indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesno
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 AWSInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accounts

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