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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Pinot vs. Derby vs. GeoSpock vs. Hawkular Metrics

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchpinot.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derbygeospock.comwww.hawkular.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.pinot.apache.orgdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software FoundationGeoSpockCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release2012201519972014
Current release1.0.0, September 202310.17.1.0, November 20232.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, JavascriptJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyestemporal, categoricalno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCJDBCJDBCHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
JavaGo
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersnoyesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioningnoneAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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