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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 HBaseOracles in-memory data grid solutionSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#131  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#379  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchphoenix.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchphoenix.apache.orgdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationOracleSADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122014200720062001
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201914.1, August 20238.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 indexedyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnonoyes infoLive Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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