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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. searchxml vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Search engine

Native XML DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

basex.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.basex.org

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Amazon

BaseX GmbH

informationpartners gmbh

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2007

2015

2016

Current release

11.2, August 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

via 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

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication

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

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users and roles

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