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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JSqlDb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JSqlDb vs. Spark SQL

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousejsqldb.org (offline)spark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAmazonDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerIBMKonrad von BackstromApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122008201420182014
Current release7.2.4, September 20120.8, December 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScriptJava
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPL/SQL, SQL PLfunctions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
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 signaturesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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