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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GBase vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A widely adopted in-memory data gridIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.gbase.cnhazelcast.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAmazonGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.HazelcastMicrosoft
Initial release20122004200820142015
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.3.6, November 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.yesyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyes infoEventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes infoReplicated Mapnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesRole-based access controlnoyes infousing Azure authentication

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