DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. ArcadeDB vs. Heroic vs. SQream DB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. ArcadeDB vs. Heroic vs. SQream DB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

arcadedb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

sqream.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.arcadedb.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Amazon

Arcade Data

Spotify

SQream Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2021

2014

2017

2020

Current release

September 2021

2022.1.6, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL 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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

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