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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. LeanXcale vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Search engine

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#286	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

basex.org

www.leanxcale.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.basex.org

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Amazon

BaseX GmbH

LeanXcale

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2007

2015

2007

Current release

11.2, August 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
Java
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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 on 4 levels

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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