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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Pinot vs. SQL.JS vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 latencyPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time 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
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchpinot.apache.orgsql.js.orgwww.teradata.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.pinot.apache.orgsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.teradata.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTeradataVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20122015201219842011
Current release1.0.0, September 2023Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Linux
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCJavaScript API.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
JavaScriptC
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
TriggersnonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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