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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. LeanXcale

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. LeanXcale

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigobject.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bigobject.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.CCRi and othersLeanXcale
Initial release2012201520142015
Current release5.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuano
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonedepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnonedepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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