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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Bangdb vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Bangdb vs. Fauna vs. GeoMesa

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbangdb.comfauna.comwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bangdb.comdocs.fauna.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBFauna, Inc.CCRi and others
Initial release2012201220142014
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20214.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++ScalaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmhorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingdepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replicationdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modenodepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes (enterprise version only)Identity management, authentication, and access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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