DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. GreptimeDB vs. Lovefield vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GreptimeDB vs. Lovefield vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Open Source Time Series DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

greptime.com

google.github.io/lovefield

siridb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.greptime.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon

Greptime Inc.

Google

Cesbit

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2022

2014

2017

2020

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

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

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Simple rights management via user accounts

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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Recent citations in the news

Amazon CloudSearch – Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month | Amazon Web Services
12 April 2012, AWS Blog

Amazon CloudSearch – Even Better Searching for Less Than $100/Month | Amazon Web Services
24 March 2014, AWS Blog

Amazon Takes On Google And Microsoft With CloudSearch
16 April 2012, Forbes

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2 June 2020, TechTarget

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21 October 2014, AWS Blog

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