DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. FileMaker vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

druid.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

1983

2000

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

PHP

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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