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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill vs. GeoMesa vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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 StorageGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented 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
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4wakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationCCRi and othersSTS Soft SCWakanda SAS
Initial release20122012201420112012
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.0.5, February 20244.0.8, September 20152.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaC#C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 indexednoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C#
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingdepending on storage layernonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSdepending on storage layernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 sourcedepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyes

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