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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Fauna vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Riak TS

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  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 CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.55
Rank#143  Overall
#26  Document stores
#13  Graph DBMS
#66  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
#16  Vector DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchfauna.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.fauna.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAmazonFauna, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20122014201020152015
Current release3.3 July 20233.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesErlang
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesno
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 indexedyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoErlang
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsno

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