DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GeoMesa vs. Greenplum vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GeoMesa vs. Greenplum vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.geomesa.org

greenplum.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

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

docs.greenplum.org

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Amazon

Cloudflare

CCRi and others

Pivotal Software Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2012

2018

2014

2005

2021

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

7.0.0, September 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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