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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. Heroic vs. MonetDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.com/­resourcesspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAmazonExasolSpotifyMonetDB BVAlex Kashirin
Initial release20122000201420042020
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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