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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GBase vs. SQL.JS vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.gbase.cn

sql.js.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Amazon

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2004

2012

2001

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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