DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Db2 vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Db2 vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	123.05
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#259	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.ibm.com/products/db2

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon

IBM

Kyligence, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

1983

host version

2016

2000

Current release

12.1, October 2016

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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