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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. BigchainDB vs. QuestDB vs. ToroDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for HadoopBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchimpala.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comquestdb.iogithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaQuestDB Technology Inc8Kdata
Initial release20122013201620142016
Current release4.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factorselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosyesAccess rights for users and roles
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Amazon CloudSearchApache ImpalaBigchainDBQuestDBToroDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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