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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. OpenTSDB vs. Realm

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  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 HBaseScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchphoenix.apache.orgopentsdb.netrealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchphoenix.apache.orgopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundationcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release2012201420112014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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 indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnononoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoyes

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