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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Pinot vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Pinot vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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 latencyDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchpinot.apache.orgquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.pinot.apache.orgdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsquasardbSiteWhere
Initial release2012201520092010
Current release1.0.0, September 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCHTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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