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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Derby vs. Newts vs. Solr vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdb.apache.org/­derbyopennms.github.io/­newtssolr.apache.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikisolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationOpenNMS GroupApache Software FoundationAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20121997201420062008
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20239.6.0, April 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCHTTP REST
Java API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored ProceduresnoJava pluginsno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnooptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesno

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