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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. GigaSpaces vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.comwww.gigaspaces.comopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonExasolGigaspaces Technologiescurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2012200020002011
Current release15.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlno

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