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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. DolphinDB vs. openGauss vs. Sphinx

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.dolphindb.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
sphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonDolphinDB, IncHuawei and openGauss communitySphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2012201820192001
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20223.0, March 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++, JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageANSI SQL 2011SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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