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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

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Score	1.68
Rank	#132	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

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More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market
3 August 2015, Matthias Gelbmann

The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines
4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger

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