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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. GigaSpaces

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­documentdbblueflood.iowww.exasol.comwww.gigaspaces.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.html
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceExasolGigaspaces Technologies
Initial release20122019201320002000
Current release15.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadata
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-99 for query and DML statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)HTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnononoyesyes, event driven architecture
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyes infoHadoop integrationyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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