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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. SQream DB vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. SQream DB vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#387  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score1.46
Rank#159  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicsqream.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.sqream.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAmazonSpotifySQream TechnologiesAlex KashirinVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20122014201720202010
Current release2022.1.6, December 20220.5, April 202111.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++Java, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions in PythonnoJava
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningShardingSharding
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 methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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