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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. GigaSpaces vs. OrientDB vs. Riak KV vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GigaSpaces vs. OrientDB vs. Riak KV vs. Solr

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.gigaspaces.comorientdb.orgsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAmazonGigaspaces TechnologiesOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122000201020092006
Current release15.5, September 20203.2.29, March 20243.2.0, December 20229.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesrestrictedyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query language, no joinsnoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava, JavascriptErlangJava plugins
Triggersnoyes, event driven architectureHooksyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationship in graphsno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyes, using Riak Securityyes

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