DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

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Name

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.esgyn.cn

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Amazon

Esgyn

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2012

2015

2014

2018

2014

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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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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24 January 2014, TechTarget

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24 March 2014, AWS Blog

Amazon Takes On Google And Microsoft With CloudSearch
16 April 2012, Forbes

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