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

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Name

Description

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

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

drill.apache.org

bigobject.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.bigobject.io

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

BigObject, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2015

2011

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Depending on the underlying data source

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