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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Infobright vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Primary database model

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

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

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

Developer

Amazon

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Oracle

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2005

2007

2015

Current release

14.1, August 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

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

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Live Events

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

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
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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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