DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Galaxybase vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Galaxybase vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

galaxybase.com

rocksdb.org

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Amazon

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2017

2013

2014

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Role-based access control

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