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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. EsgynDB vs. Geode vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EsgynDB vs. Geode vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#319  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score9.23
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.esgyn.cngeode.apache.orggreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAmazonEsgynOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Pivotal Software Inc.
Initial release20122015200220052014
Current release1.1, February 20177.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (OQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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