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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. searchxml

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeSearch engineNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmanticoresearch.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Manticore Softwareinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2012201020172015
Current release6.0, February 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.noCan index from XMLyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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