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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. Rockset vs. TerarkDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewrockset.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.rockset.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014RocksetByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20122010201320192016
Current release2.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangGoC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data and Stringsdynamic typingno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno
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Amazon CloudSearchIBM CloudantInfluxDBRocksetTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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