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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. GBase vs. Geode

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. GBase vs. Geode

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes
Primary database modelSearch engineNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbasex.orgwww.gbase.cngeode.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.basex.orggeode.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperAmazonBaseX GmbHDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.
Initial release20122007200820042002
Current release11.2, August 20247.2.4, September 2012GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C, Java, PythonJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also required
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBCADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
PHP
C#.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infoCache Event Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyesAccess rights per client and object definable

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