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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GeoMesa

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Primary database model

Search engine

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.68
Rank	#132	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.74
Rank	#212	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.geomesa.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Amazon

CCRi and others

Initial release

2012

2014

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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DB-Engines blog posts

Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market
3 August 2015, Matthias Gelbmann

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4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger

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Recent citations in the news

Transition from Amazon CloudSearch to Amazon OpenSearch Service
25 July 2024, AWS Blog

AWS to discontinue Cloud9, CodeCommit, CloudSearch and several other services
31 July 2024, Neowin

AWS closes several cloud services to new customers
8 August 2024, InfoWorld

AWS is quietly killing off some services under its new CEO
31 July 2024, The Stack

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12 April 2012, AWS Blog

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