DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. ClickHouse vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Druid vs. ClickHouse vs. Manticore Search

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Name

Description

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

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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

druid.apache.org

clickhouse.com

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

clickhouse.com/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Clickhouse Inc.

Manticore Software

Initial release

2012

2007

2012

2016

2017

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

key based and custom

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

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