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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Speedb vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Speedb vs. Splice Machine

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeKey-value storeRelational 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
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.speedb.iosplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SpeedbSplice Machine
Initial release2012201020202014
Current release3.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes infoJava
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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Amazon CloudSearchIBM CloudantSpeedbSplice Machine
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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