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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Pinot vs. SQL.JS vs. VelocityDB

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

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchpinot.apache.orgsql.js.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.pinot.apache.orgsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2012201520122011
Current release1.0.0, September 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCJavaScript API.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
JavaScript.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoBased on Windows Authentication

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