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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. Postgres-XL vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graph Engine vs. Postgres-XL vs. Rockset

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.graphengine.iowww.postgres-xl.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAmazonGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftRockset
Initial release2012201220102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2019
Current release10 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation language.NET and CCC++
Server operating systemshostedhosted.NETLinux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesdynamic typing
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yesuser defined functionsno
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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