DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

sphinxsearch.com

www.sqlite.org

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Amazon

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2012

2001

2000

2020

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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