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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. AntDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. EXASOL

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmldrill.apache.orgblueflood.iowww.exasol.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.exasol.com/­resources
DeveloperAmazonAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedApache Software FoundationRackspaceExasol
Initial release2012201220132000
Current release1.20.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexedyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL2016 compliantSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++Java
Lua
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesDepending on the underlying data sourcenoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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