DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. GreptimeDB vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GreptimeDB vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. SwayDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

greptime.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

jsqldb.org (offline)

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.greptime.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Amazon

Greptime Inc.

Spotify

Konrad von Backstrom

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2022

2014

2018

Current release

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

JavaScript

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

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