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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. QuestDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 ElasticSearchA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlquestdb.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonSpotifyOracleQuestDB Technology IncAlex Kashirin
Initial release20122014201120142020
Current release23.3, December 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyes
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 Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID for single-table writes
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 infooff heap cacheyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and roles
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Amazon CloudSearchHeroicOracle NoSQLQuestDBSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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