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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. dBASE vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. dBASE vs. GridGain vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 datadBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteCloud-based data warehousing service
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.orgwww.dbase.comwww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouse
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsAsthon TateGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM
Initial release20122012197920072014
Current release29.0.1, April 2024dBASE 2019, 2019GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyes
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.noyesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
dBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)PL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggersnononoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneyes (replicated cache)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDACID
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.noyesyes
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 and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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