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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. MonetDB vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.monetdb.org

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon

MonetDB BV

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2004

2012

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

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

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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