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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Geode vs. GeoMesa vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Geode vs. GeoMesa vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgeode.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orgrethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgeode.apache.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.CCRi and othersThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer Plaha
Initial release20122002201420092018
Current release1.1, February 20174.0.5, February 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event ListenersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingdepending on storage layerSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodenoAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.yesdepending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights per client and object definableyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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