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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Drizzle vs. Machbase Neo vs. PouchDB

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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.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

machbase.com

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

machbase.com/dbms

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Machbase

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2008

2013

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

V8.0, August 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View 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

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

simple password-based access control

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Recent citations in the news

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12 April 2012, AWS Blog

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