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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SQLite vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.sqlite.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Amazon

InterSystems

Dwayne Richard Hipp

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2018

2000

2001

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

server-less

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

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

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

none

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

yes

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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