DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Riak TS vs. SQL.JS vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Riak TS vs. SQL.JS vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB 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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

sql.js.org

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2015

2012

2016

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

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

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Access rights for users and roles

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