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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. QuestDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA widely adopted in-memory data gridTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchhazelcast.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicquestdb.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicquestdb.io/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperAmazonHazelcastSpotifyQuestDB Technology IncRocket Software
Initial release20122008201420141985
Current release5.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptional
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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnonoyes
Triggersnoyes infoEventsnonoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infoReplicated MapyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoACID for single-table writesACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesRole-based access controlAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based
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Amazon CloudSearchHazelcastHeroicQuestDBUniData,UniVerse
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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