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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. HBase vs. OrigoDB vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. HBase vs. OrigoDB vs. Sqrrl

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelSearch engineWide column storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchhbase.apache.orgorigodb.comsqrrl.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetRobert Friberg et alAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release201220082009 infounder the name LiveDB2012
Current release2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC#Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.NetActionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesno
Triggersnoyesyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACRole based authorizationCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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