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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. VelocityDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.datomic.com

velocitydb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.datomic.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Cognitect

VelocityDB Inc

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2011

2019

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

7.x

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Any that supports .NET

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

.Net

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes, each node contains all data

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

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Based on Windows Authentication

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