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

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

pinot.apache.org

www.harperdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.harperdb.io/docs

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

HarperDB

Initial release

2012

2015

2017

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

horizontal partitioning

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles

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