DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. DataFS vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hive

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. DataFS vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hive

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Name

Description

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

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

phoenix.apache.org

newdatabase.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hive.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

phoenix.apache.org

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Mobiland AG

Google

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Initial release

2012

2014

2018

2010

2012

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

1.1.263, October 2022

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Windows-Profile

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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