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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.79
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#151	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Amazon

Transwarp

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

Current release

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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