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

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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.

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.24
Rank	#311	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Amazon

FairCom Corporation

SiteWhere

ByteDance, originally Terark

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

1979

2010

2016

2010

Current release

V12, November 2020

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

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

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java

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

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Sharding

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).

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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