DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. RisingWave

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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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

2012

2015

2022

Current release

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Users and Roles

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