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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. EJDB vs. EXASOL vs. GigaSpaces

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchblueflood.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.exasol.comwww.gigaspaces.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.html
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceSoftmotionsExasolGigaspaces Technologies
Initial release20122013201220002000
Current release15.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
server-lessLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadata
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-99 for query and DML statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP RESTin-process shared library.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnononoyesyes, event driven architecture
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoHadoop integrationyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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