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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill vs. Graphite vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 StorageData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whispera GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational 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
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-websqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.org/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationChris DavisSQream Technologies
Initial release2012201220062017
Current release1.20.3, January 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data source
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesDepending on the underlying data sourceno

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