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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. DataFS vs. EsgynDB vs. IRONdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

newdatabase.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Amazon

Mobiland AG

Esgyn

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2012

2018

2015

2017

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in Lua

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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.

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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