DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. MariaDB vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. MariaDB vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/spotify/heroic

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

spotify.github.io/heroic

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Spotify

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Juxt Ltd.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2014

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2019

2009

Current release

11.3.2, February 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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