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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. SAP IQ vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

blueflood.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon

Rackspace

SAP, formerly Sybase

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2013

1994

2012

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

based on Cassandra

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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