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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Bangdb vs. RavenDB

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Name

Description

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.15
Rank	#334	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#101	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

bangdb.com

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.bangdb.com

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Amazon

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2012

2010

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes (enterprise version only)

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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Recent citations in the news

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12 April 2012, AWS Blog

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16 April 2012, Forbes

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19 November 2014, AWS Blog

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