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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GreptimeDB vs. Riak TS

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

greptime.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.greptime.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Amazon

Greptime Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2022

2015

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Simple rights management via user accounts

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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

Searching CloudTrail Logs Easily with Amazon CloudSearch | AWS Startups Blog
21 October 2014, AWS Blog

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

AWS, Microsoft and Google should retire these cloud services
2 June 2020, TechTarget

CloudSearch Update – Price Reduction, Hebrew & Japanese Support, Partitioning, CloudTrail | Amazon Web Services
19 November 2014, AWS Blog

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