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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Geode vs. QuestDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

geode.apache.org

questdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

geode.apache.org/docs

questdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

QuestDB Technology Inc

SAP, Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2002

2014

1987

2000

Current release

1.1, February 2017

16.0

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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 query language (OQL)

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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