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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. PouchDB vs. SwayDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. PouchDB vs. SwayDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#341  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchpouchdb.comswaydb.simer.auwww.timescale.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationSimer PlahaTimescaleTranswarp
Initial release2012201220182017
Current release7.1.1, June 20192.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaC
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnononumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia viewsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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