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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill vs. Geode vs. Kingbase vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill vs. Geode vs. Kingbase vs. TerarkDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 StorageGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.orggeode.apache.orgwww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.org/­docsgeode.apache.org/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20122012200219992016
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.1, February 2017V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query language (OQL)Standard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes, on a single nodeACIDno
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 sourceyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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