DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. JSqlDb vs. KeyDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. JSqlDb vs. KeyDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TimesTen

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.keydb.dev

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Amazon

Konrad von Backstrom

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Microsoft

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2018

2019

2014

1998

Current release

0.8, December 2018

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

JSON types

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

Lua

JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

simple password-based access control and ACL

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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