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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. RocksDB vs. TDengine vs. Teradata

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

rocksdb.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.tdengine.com

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Facebook, Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2013

2019

1984

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

3.0, August 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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