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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RavenDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopCloud-based data warehousing serviceOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseravendb.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchspotify.github.io/­heroiccwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAmazonSpotifyApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBMHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20122014201220142010
Current release3.1.3, April 20225.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducePL/SQL, SQL PLyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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