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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Pinot vs. Graphite

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Pinot vs. Graphite

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.58
Rank#244  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchpinot.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.pinot.apache.orggraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsChris Davis
Initial release201220152006
Current release1.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaPython
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
Unix
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data only
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
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCHTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolocking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesno

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