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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. Hive vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch 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
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.comhive.apache.orgsiridb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.com/­resourcescwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.siridb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonExasolApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookCesbitSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122000201220172001
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datano
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 indexedyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple rights management via user accountsno

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