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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Coveo vs. Firebird vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Coveo vs. Firebird vs. Trafodion

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.coveo.comwww.firebirdsql.orgtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.coveo.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAmazonCoveoFirebird FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release201220122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyeshybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPSQLJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesSource-replica replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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