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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Manticore Search

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasecloud.google.com/­datastoremanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleManticore Software
Initial release20122012201220082017
Current release29.0.1, April 20246.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
hostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, details hereInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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.nononoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'using Google App Engineuser defined functions
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication using PaxosSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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