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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for HadoopHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchimpala.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.postgres-xl.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaAtos Convergence CreatorsAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2012201320162014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2008
Current release4.1.0, June 2022170310 R1, October 20185.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
server-less
Data schemeyesyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
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.noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
LDAPADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCAll languages with LDAP bindings.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infocell divisionhorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infoMVCCACID
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosLDAP bind authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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