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

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
manticoresearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperAmazonAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsDragonflyDB team and community contributorsManticore Software
Initial release20122007201220232017
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.0, March 20236.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedscheme-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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.nonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL for queryingnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolBinary 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
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoLuauser defined functions
Triggersnononopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess 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 systemPassword-based authenticationno

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