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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. atoti vs. HBase vs. QuestDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelSearch engineObject oriented DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.56
Rank#245  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchatoti.iohbase.apache.orgquestdb.iospark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.atoti.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmlquestdb.io/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAmazonActiveViamApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetQuestDB Technology IncApache Software Foundation
Initial release2012200820142014
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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 indexednonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)noSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding, horizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)yes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno
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Amazon CloudSearchatotiHBaseQuestDBSpark SQL
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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