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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Citus vs. CockroachDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Citus vs. CockroachDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OrigoDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.citusdata.comwww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
origodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.citusdata.comwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.heavy.aiorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonCockroach LabsHEAVY.AI, Inc.Robert Friberg et al
Initial release20122010201520162009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release8.1, December 201824.1.0, May 20245.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCGoC++ and CUDAC#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdynamic schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorization

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