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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. etcd vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Newts

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA distributed reliable key-value storeCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
firebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014OpenNMS Group
Initial release201220122014
Current release3.4, August 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexednoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC
JSON over HTTP
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'no
Triggersnoyes, watching key changesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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