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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. Rockset

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.graphengine.iorockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAmazonGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftRockset
Initial release20122016201220102019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
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Implementation languagePython.NET and CC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted.NEThosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesdynamic typing
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yesno
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioningAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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