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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JSqlDb

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.34
Rank	#166	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

Developer

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

IBM

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2012

2008

2014

2018

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

yes

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 RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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