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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Ingres vs. NSDb

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudWell established RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresnsdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.actian.com/­ingresnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAmazonActian Corporation
Initial release20121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2017
Current release11.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJava, Scala
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
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 signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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