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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. PieCloudDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigobject.iogreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.openpie.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.OpenPie
Initial release2012201520052014
Current release7.0.0, September 20232.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptJava
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
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Amazon CloudSearchBigObjectGreenplumLokiJSPieCloudDB
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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