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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Axibase vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx vs. Teradata

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engineRelational 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
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.comwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperAmazonAxibase Corporationinformationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.Teradata
Initial release20122013201520011984
Current release155851.03.5.1, February 2023Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxWindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesnoyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoon the application servernoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonomultiple readers, single writernoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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