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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. LeanXcale vs. RethinkDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.leanxcale.com

rethinkdb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

LeanXcale

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Transwarp

Initial release

2012

2015

2009

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

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