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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. HBase vs. Newts vs. Solr

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelSearch engineWide column storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchhbase.apache.orgopennms.github.io/­newtssolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikisolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpenNMS GroupApache Software Foundation
Initial release2012200820142006
Current release2.3.4, January 20219.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
Java API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoJava plugins
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoyes

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