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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Citus vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Manticore Search vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Citus vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Manticore Search vs. SiriDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Open Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.citusdata.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoremanticoresearch.comsiridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.citusdata.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoremanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperAmazonGoogleManticore SoftwareCesbit
Initial release20122010201720172017
Current release8.1, December 20186.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes infoNumeric data
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes, with Cloud Functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.nosimple rights management via user accounts

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