DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Cassandra vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Cassandra vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. YDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Spatial extension of SQLite

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#269	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cassandra.apache.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Alessandro Furieri

Teradata

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2008

2005

2019

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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