DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Faircom DB vs. MySQL vs. SiteWhere vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Faircom DB vs. MySQL vs. SiteWhere vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Widely used open source RDBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.mysql.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

FairCom Corporation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SiteWhere

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

1979

1995

2010

2016

Current release

V12, November 2020

8.3.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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