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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EventStoreDB vs. Firebird

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase
Primary database modelSearch engineEvent StoreRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.eventstore.comwww.firebirdsql.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperAmazonEvent Store LimitedFirebird Foundation
Initial release201220122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase
Current release21.2, February 20215.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQL
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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