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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Solr

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Name

Description

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.42
Rank	#138	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	49.56
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

lucene.apache.org/solr

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

lucene.apache.org/solr/resources.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2006

Current release

9.2.1, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

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