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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. etcd vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. etcd vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA distributed reliable key-value storeEnterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.31
Rank#285  Overall
#129  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.postgresql.fastware.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAmazonPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release201220172010
Current release3.4, August 2019Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesyes
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Implementation languageGoCErlang
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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 indexednoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC
JSON over HTTP
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes, watching key changesyesyes, with Cloud Functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredpartitioning by range, list and by hashShardingSharding
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.Source-replica replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoUsing Cloud Dataflowyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDyesno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access rights for users can be defined per database
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Amazon CloudSearchetcdFujitsu Enterprise PostgresGoogle Cloud FirestoreIBM Cloudant
Specific characteristics100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantagesBuilt-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenariosTransactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Market metricsOver 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCore based licensing
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