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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. etcd vs. Infobright vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	7.05
Rank	#53	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2005

2001

Current release

3.4, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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