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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
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.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelSearch engineNative XML DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.90
Rank#136  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbasex.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.basex.org
DeveloperAmazonBaseX GmbHSTS Soft SC
Initial release201220072011
Current release10.7, August 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsno

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