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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Drizzle vs. Lovefield vs. SpaceTime

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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.

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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2008

2014

2020

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

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Recent citations in the news

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