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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. ArcadeDB vs. LokiJS vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

arcadedb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.arcadedb.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Arcade Data

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2021

2014

2010

Current release

September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JavaScript API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

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 HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Recent citations in the news

Amazon CloudSearch – Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month | Amazon Web Services
12 April 2012, AWS Blog

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24 March 2014, AWS Blog

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16 April 2012, Forbes

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2 June 2020, TechTarget

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