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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. Splice Machine vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. Splice Machine vs. SWC-DB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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 HSQLDBOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA 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
Trend Chart
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
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichsqldb.orgsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchspotify.github.io/­heroichsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAmazonSpotifySplice MachineAlex Kashirin
Initial release20122014200120142020
Current release2.7.2, June 20233.1, March 20210.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
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
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
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLyes infoJavano
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
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 datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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