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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Brytlyt vs. GeoMesa vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

brytlyt.io

www.geomesa.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.brytlyt.io

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Brytlyt

CCRi and others

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

1993

Current release

5.0, August 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

depending on storage layer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Recent citations in the news

Amazon CloudSearch – Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month | Amazon Web Services
12 April 2012, AWS Blog

Is Amazon CloudSearch superior to do-it-yourself search tools?
24 January 2014, TechTarget

Amazon CloudSearch – Even Better Searching for Less Than $100/Month | Amazon Web Services
24 March 2014, AWS Blog

Amazon Takes On Google And Microsoft With CloudSearch
16 April 2012, Forbes

Searching CloudTrail Logs Easily with Amazon CloudSearch | AWS Startups Blog
21 October 2014, AWS Blog

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Brytlyt releases version 5.0, introducing a more intuitive, intelligent and flexible analytics platform
1 August 2023, PR Newswire

London data analytics startup Brytlyt raises €4.43M from Amsterdam-based Finch Capital, others
22 December 2021, Silicon Canals

Brytlyt becomes NVIDIA Inception Premier Partner
31 January 2023, PR Newswire

London’s Brytlyt raises €4.4 million for its data analytics and visualisation technology
22 December 2021, EU-Startups

Bringing GPUs To Bear On Bog Standard Relational Databases
26 February 2018, The Next Platform

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