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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudPort of SQLite to JavaScriptScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.57
Rank#248  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchsql.js.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAmazonAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201220122018
Current release11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJavaScript APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoRole-based access control

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