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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Bangdb vs. WakandaDB

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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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

bangdb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.bangdb.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

JavaScript

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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)

yes

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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 January 2014, TechTarget

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24 March 2014, AWS Blog

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16 April 2012, Forbes

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