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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. Vertica vs. WakandaDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial 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
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchblueflood.iowww.exasol.comwww.vertica.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.exasol.com/­resourcesvertica.com/­documentationwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceExasolOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardWakanda SAS
Initial release20122013200020052012
Current release12.0.3, January 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.yes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes, called Custom Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationno infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashyes
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Amazon CloudSearchBluefloodEXASOLVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™WakandaDB
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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