DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. EJDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. Hyprcubd

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EJDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. Hyprcubd

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/spotify/heroic

hyprcubd.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Amazon

Softmotions

Spotify

Hypertable Inc.

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

2009

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via Elasticsearch

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

in-process shared library

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

gRPC (https)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

token access

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