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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Citus vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OrigoDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Citus vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OrigoDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  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 PostgreSQLA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector 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
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#16  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
origodb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.citusdata.comdocs.heavy.aiorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonHEAVY.AI, Inc.Robert Friberg et al
Initial release2012201020162009 infounder the name LiveDB2023
Current release8.1, December 20185.10, January 20221.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++ and CUDAC#C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsVector, Numeric and String
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 functionalitynono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.NetC++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding
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 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 integritynoyesnodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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