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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill vs. BigObject vs. Citus

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill vs. BigObject vs. Citus

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  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 StorageAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#342  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#123  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.orgbigobject.iowww.citusdata.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.bigobject.iodocs.citusdata.com
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationBigObject, Inc.
Initial release2012201220152010
Current release1.20.3, January 20238.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infostandard, with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsLuauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes
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 sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesDepending on the underlying data sourcenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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