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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. atoti vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. atoti vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBCloud-based data warehousing service
Primary database modelSearch engineObject oriented DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchatoti.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouse
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.atoti.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAmazonActiveViamIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBM
Initial release201220102014
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree versions availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlang
Server operating systemshostedhostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)noyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptPL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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