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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. QuestDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. QuestDB vs. Riak TS

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score15.25
Rank#38  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­redshiftquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAmazonAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)QuestDB Technology IncOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2012201220142015
Current release3.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlang
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedrestrictednorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL with time-series extensionsyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PythonnoErlang
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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