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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Dragonfly vs. GridDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
griddb.netrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.griddb.netrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonDragonflyDB team and community contributorsToshiba CorporationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2012202320132009
Current release1.0, March 20235.1, August 20222.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesscheme-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuano
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID at container levelAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousers and table-level permissions
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon CloudSearchDragonflyGridDBRethinkDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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