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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. Heroic vs. SQream DB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. Heroic vs. SQream DB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for HadoopTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearcha GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicsqream.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.sqream.comdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSpotifySQream TechnologiesVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20122013201420172018
Current release4.1.0, June 20222022.1.6, December 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenouser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factoryesnoneSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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