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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Oracle Rdb vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Google

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2012

2015

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role based authorization

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