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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. GeoMesa vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. GeoMesa vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed 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 dataGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial extension of SQLitePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsCCRi and othersAlessandro FurieriTeradata
Initial release20122012201420082005
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.0.0, May 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
server-lessLinux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoR packages
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infomanual/auto, time-baseddepending on storage layernoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesdepending on storage layernoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
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 persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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