DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQLite vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQLite vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

rocksdb.org

www.sequoiadb.com

www.sqlite.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

Facebook, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2013

2000

2016

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

simple password-based access control

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