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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Newts vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.91
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

opennms.github.io/newts

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Amazon

OpenNMS Group

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

2019

2014

2008

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

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

Access rights for users and roles

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