DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill vs. Cassandra vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill vs. Cassandra vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

drill.apache.org

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

drill.apache.org/docs

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Spotify

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2012

2008

2014

1993

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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