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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational 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
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.comquasar.aiwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAmazonExasolquasardbSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2012200020092013
Current release3.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoJavaScript
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationwith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple password-based access control

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