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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. DolphinDB vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.dolphindb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

postgis.net/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Amazon

DolphinDB, Inc

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2012

2018

2005

2012

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

no

no

no

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

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.

no

yes

no

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

SQL-like query language

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

yes

user defined functions

no

Triggers

no

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

horizontal partitioning

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

no

yes

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes

based on PostgreSQL

no

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Recent citations in the news

Amazon CloudSearch – Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month | Amazon Web Services
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