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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. H2 vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill vs. Blueflood vs. H2 vs. Heroic

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  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 StorageScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.orgblueflood.iowww.h2database.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationRackspaceThomas MuellerSpotify
Initial release20122012201320052014
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-free
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesDepending on the underlying data sourcenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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