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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. PouchDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/spotify/heroic

pouchdb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

spotify.github.io/heroic

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon

Spotify

Apache Software Foundation

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2014

2012

2020

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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Recent citations in the news

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12 April 2012, AWS Blog

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