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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Lovefield vs. Newts vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Lovefield vs. Newts vs. Sqrrl

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTime Series DBMS based on CassandraAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldopennms.github.io/­newtssqrrl.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonGoogleOpenNMS GroupAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release2012201420142012
Current release2.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaActionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnonoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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