DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. KairosDB

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Primary database model

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Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#128	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

Initial release

2012

2007

2013

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

simple password-based access control

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