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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. Newts vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Quasardb

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 ElasticSearchTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Distributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime 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
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicopennms.github.io/­newtswww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAmazonSpotifyOpenNMS GroupPerconaquasardb
Initial release20122014201420152009
Current release3.4.10-2.10, November 20173.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJavaScriptno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infovia In-Memory Engineyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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