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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenSearch vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucenea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
sqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Amazon Web ServicesSQream Technologies
Initial release2012201020212017
Current release2.5.0, January 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per database
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon CloudSearchIBM CloudantOpenSearchSQream DB
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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