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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Machbase Neo vs. OpenEdge vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Machbase Neo vs. OpenEdge vs. Prometheus

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataApplication development environment with integrated database management systemOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmachbase.comwww.progress.com/­openedgeprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmachbase.com/­dbmsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MachbaseProgress Software Corporation
Initial release20122010201319842015
Current releaseV8.0, August 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangCGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesNumeric data only
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.nonoyesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlUsers and groupsno

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