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

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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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/spotify/heroic

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

spotify.github.io/heroic

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon

Spotify

Alex Kashirin

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2014

2020

2012

Current release

0.5, April 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes

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