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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. Faircom EDGE vs. InfinityDB

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

blueflood.io

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

boilerbay.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Amazon

Rackspace

FairCom Corporation

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

1979

2002

Current release

V3, October 2020

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

based on Cassandra

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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