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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. BoltDB vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreAn embedded key-value store for Go.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbkairosdb.github.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAmazonMicrosoft
Initial release2007201320132015
Current release1.2.2, November 2018V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
GoJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nosimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authentication

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