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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. FatDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. FatDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperAmazonFatCloudGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chris DavisSybase, SAP
Initial release20122012201220061993
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC#Python
Server operating systemshostedWindowshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes, based on authentication and database rulesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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