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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA multi-model DBMS and application serverA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgeospock.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.leanxcale.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAmazonGeoSpockInterSystemsLeanXcale
Initial release2012199720152014
Current release2.0, September 20192018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedtemporal, categoricalyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes infothrough Apache Derbyno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C
Java
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredAutomatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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