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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SWC-DB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 ElasticSearchMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBCloud-based data warehousing serviceA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichsqldb.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchspotify.github.io/­heroichsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperAmazonSpotifyIBMAlex Kashirin
Initial release20122014200120142020
Current release2.7.2, June 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLPL/SQL, SQL PLno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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