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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Pinot vs. OpenQM vs. SQLite

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score74.45
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbpinot.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAmazonAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20122012201519932000
Current release1.0.0, September 20233.4-123.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBCADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnoyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioningyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 signaturesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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