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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Faircom EDGE vs. gStore vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#359  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgeen.gstore.cnwww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAmazonFairCom CorporationHarperDBSpotify
Initial release20121979201620172014
Current releaseV3, October 20201.2, November 20233.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C++Node.jsJava
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportdynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedAccess rights for users and roles

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