DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hyprcubd vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hyprcubd vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2014

2011

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC (https)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

token access

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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