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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. RDFox vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. RDFox vs. RRDtool

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oxfordsemantic.techoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.harperdb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oxfordsemantic.techoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAmazonHarperDBSpotifyOxford Semantic TechnologiesTobias Oetiker
Initial release20122017201420171999
Current release3.1, August 20216.0, Septermber 20221.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageNode.jsJavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyesNumeric data only
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
Java
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesreplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and rolesRoles, resources, and access typesno

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