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

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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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
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DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

machbase.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

machbase.com/dbms

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Machbase

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2008

2013

2022

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

V8.0, August 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

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++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

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

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

simple password-based access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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Recent citations in the news

Amazon CloudSearch – Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month | Amazon Web Services
12 April 2012, AWS Blog

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21 October 2014, AWS Blog

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2 June 2020, TechTarget

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19 November 2014, AWS Blog

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