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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. CouchDB vs. QuestDB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 cloudA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelSearch engineRDF storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlcouchdb.apache.orgquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmldocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablequestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerQuestDB Technology IncTeradata
Initial release20122000200520142005
Current release4.9.0, July 20233.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line ProtocolFlexible 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 dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptnoR packages
Triggersnoyes infovia event handleryesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes 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 systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoTDB Transactionsno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
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.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess control via Jena SecurityAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Amazon CloudSearchApache Jena - TDBCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"QuestDBTeradata Aster
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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