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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
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
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.orgrethinkdb.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.org/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sybase, SAPSimer Plaha
Initial release20122012200919932018
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesno
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 indexednoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC++C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesno
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-document operationsACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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 sourcenono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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