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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. KairosDB vs. SAP HANA vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#269	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

kairosdb.github.io

help.sap.com/hana

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Amazon

SAP

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

2019

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

simple password-based access control

yes

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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