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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. Apache Impala vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAnalytic DBMS for HadoopDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgquasar.aitrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­mastertrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaquasardbApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20122012201320092014
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.1.0, June 20223.14.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexedyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducewith Hadoop integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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