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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. jBASE vs. Netezza

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. jBASE vs. Netezza

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.ibm.com/­products/­netezza
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)IBM
Initial release20122010201519912000
Current release3.3 July 20235.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesoptionalyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyesyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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