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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Ingres vs. RavenDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  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.Well established RDBMSOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresravendb.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.actian.com/­ingresravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAmazonGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Actian CorporationHibernating Rhinos
Initial release201220121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2010
Current release11.2, May 20225.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yesyes
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSIngres ReplicatorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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