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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#100  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score6.63
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.mcobject.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestore
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperAmazonAmazonMcObjectGoogle
Initial release2012200720012017
Current release8.2, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.no infosupport of XML interfaces availableno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersnonoyes infoby defining eventsyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationhorizontal partitioning / shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoUsing Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyes
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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