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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. DataFS vs. Lovefield

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Name

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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Search engine

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

newdatabase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Amazon

Mobiland AG

Google

Initial release

2012

2018

2014

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Windows-Profile

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