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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Pinot vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InfinityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Pinot vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InfinityDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is 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 latencyMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchpinot.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseboilerbay.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.pinot.apache.orgboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerIBMBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release20122015200820142002
Current release1.0.0, September 20237.2.4, September 20124.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPL/SQL, SQL PLno
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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