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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Apache Pinot vs. Blueflood

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Apache Pinot vs. Blueflood

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#274  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchphoenix.apache.orgpinot.apache.orgblueflood.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchphoenix.apache.orgdocs.pinot.apache.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsRackspace
Initial release2012201420152013
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCJDBCHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyno

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