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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. LokiJS vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. LokiJS vs. Riak TS

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  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 assetsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAmazonOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2012201620142015
Current release3.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes 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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesnono

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