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

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.orgpinot.apache.orgblueflood.iowww.exasol.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.pinot.apache.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.exasol.com/­resources
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsRackspaceExasol
Initial release20122012201520132000
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeyespredefined 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 indexednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Java
Python
Java
Lua
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding 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 systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending 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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