DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Kylin vs. ClickHouse vs. Derby vs. Kyligence Enterprise

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Kylin vs. ClickHouse vs. Derby vs. Kyligence Enterprise

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

kylin.apache.org

clickhouse.com

db.apache.org/derby

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

kylin.apache.org/docs

clickhouse.com/docs

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Clickhouse Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

2016

1997

2016

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

10.17.1.0, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

key based and custom

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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