DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GeoSpock vs. Hive vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GeoSpock vs. Hive vs. Prometheus

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

geospock.com

hive.apache.org

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

GeoSpock

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Initial release

2012

2015

Current release

2.0, September 2019

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

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

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 can be defined per table

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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