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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Dragonfly vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Dragonfly vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. SwayDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 instanceTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value store
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
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­spotify/­heroicjsqldb.org (offline)swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAmazonDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSpotifyKonrad von BackstromSimer Plaha
Initial release20122023201420182018
Current release1.0, March 20230.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesscheme-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyes infovia Elasticsearchnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP 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
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanofunctions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesPassword-based authenticationno

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