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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Fauna vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Fauna vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchfauna.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.fauna.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAmazonFauna, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20122014201020172008
Current release2.05.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaErlangC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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